Acharya Prashant addresses a question about the popularity of self-help books that sell various techniques, which he considers baseless. He explains that the self-help industry has no room for self-knowledge. It does not encourage one to look at oneself but instead offers methods like 'The 5 AM Club'. He satirically illustrates this with the example of 'guided meditation,' where people might listen to a cassette with sounds of ocean waves and birds for twenty years. He remarks that in this time, the ocean has dried up, the baby has grown old, and the woman with the bangles has died, yet people continue listening to the same recording, calling it meditation. This highlights the futility of mechanical repetition without understanding. Using an analogy from the movie 'Andaz Apna Apna,' where a character with 'Vasco da Gama's gun' doesn't know how to use it, causing it to backfire, Acharya Prashant explains that any technique is useless when one is in a state of intoxication or ignorance. The primary need is to first get rid of this intoxication. However, people are attached to this state and prefer to engage in external rituals and practices, which they mistake for religion. He asserts that the only way to overcome this intoxication is through self-knowledge. He distinguishes between religion and spirituality, stating that the only true religion is self-knowledge. Any method devoid of self-knowledge is dangerous, akin to giving a sword to a monkey. Spirituality is not about following a pre-defined set of rules but about being present and aware. A self-realized person is not bound by old methods; they spontaneously create new methods for each new situation, as life is ever-changing. The path to truth is for the simple and innocent, not for the clever and cunning who rely on tricks and techniques. The self-realized person is free from their inner prison and can see reality as it is, with their actions arising from a state of presence and understanding.