Acharya Prashant explains a couplet by Kabir Saheb, using the metaphor of a fish and the sea to illustrate the human condition. He begins by defining the sea for a fish: it is that which is both outside and inside the fish, that which existed before the fish and will remain after it. The sea is where the fish is born, lives, and ultimately dies. The sea is the very being of the fish, to the extent that it would not be wrong to call the fish a drop of the sea. Quoting Kabir, he mentions that sometimes the drop is said to merge into the sea, and sometimes the sea merges into the drop, signifying that the two are indivisible and no line can be drawn between them. This indivisibility, the speaker states, is a gift given to all in existence. You can never separate a being from its inherent nature. You cannot separate a tree from its nature, nor can you separate a fish from its sea. However, man is the only creature who has been separated from his sea and yet continues to live. This is where Kabir's couplet, "The fish is the most loving, the other has little love," comes in. The "other" with little love is man, who has not known true love and is filled with littleness. Man is the one who can live even after being separated from his nature, while a fish would die in an instant. Acharya Prashant then quotes another of Kabir's couplets: "One separated from Ram does not live; and if he lives, he becomes mad." He explains that a fish does not have the option of becoming mad; it will simply die upon separation. Man, however, has a choice: either die or become mad. And with great ease, man chooses to become mad. This is why we are alive—because we have accepted a state of madness. The one who is separated from Ram (Truth) is mad. Man has created a situation where to be considered a 'man' by society, one must be distant from Ram. Society certifies you as a man only when you are separated from Ram. The choice is to either accept the certificate from society or to find Ram. The speaker concludes by urging the listener to be like the fish: "When separated from the water, then give up the body." He advises that it is better to die than to be separated from Ram, to accept death over bondage.