Acharya Prashant addresses a question about overcoming bodily and social conditioning, specifically attachments to food, the opposite sex, and the comforts of a job. He begins by explaining that unlike humans, animals in the jungle do not overeat or care for delicious food; they eat merely for life energy. The reason man overeats is due to something specific to the human psyche that animals lack: the desire for fulfillment, which is another name for Truth or liberation. The ego, in its quest for fulfillment, paradoxically seeks it in things like food, which then become obstacles to that very fulfillment. The speaker elaborates that the attachment is not to simple, healthy foods but to heavy, oily, carb-loaded meals that dull the mind. This dullness is a chemical effect that makes it difficult to engage in spiritual activities, such as listening to the Gita. The ego uses food as a medium to avoid the Truth and as a substitute for real fulfillment. The same principle applies to the attraction to the opposite sex. The issue is not about renouncing food or women but about a change in taste. When something more important and fulfilling enters one's life, the taste for lesser pleasures diminishes. Self-knowledge makes one a person of good taste. Acharya Prashant clarifies that the mark of a spiritual person is not that they will not have food or sex, but that they will not have unworthy food or sex with unworthy people. This refinement of taste is the essence of 'Brahmacharya'—not being found close to unworthy people. Similarly, regarding social conditioning and dependency on a job for comfort, he advises a realistic assessment of 'how much is enough.' When one finds a higher source of fulfillment, the choice of food changes, and the need for external validation through a job also lessens. One can then consciously decide to retire from these dependencies, rather than being driven by them.