Acharya Prashant explains that individuals often remain separated from Shri Rama because they are preoccupied with maintaining family lineage and fulfilling so-called social duties. He points out that people spend their entire lives laboring for the sustenance of their families, wives, and children, only to realize the futility of these efforts when death stands before them. The time that could have been spent in the pursuit of liberation is instead wasted on domestic entanglements and petty worldly affairs. He emphasizes that death is not merely an event at the end of life but a constant fear that governs one's actions in the present. This fundamental fear of death, or the fear of ceasing to exist, is what drives people to cling to family identities and social structures. He further elaborates that all fears are essentially the fear of the loss of identity or mental death. Because humans lack true love and only understand attraction, they seek security through marriage and family, which in turn creates new identities that deepen their fear of loss. Acharya Prashant asserts that relationships can only be vital if they have a spiritual foundation rather than a social one. Spirituality prioritizes Truth above all, whereas society prioritizes individuals and their roles, such as being a father, mother, or spouse. Since society is a creation of the human mind and spirituality is that which is beyond the mind, the two cannot coexist. He concludes by noting that even the act of having children is often a desperate attempt to achieve a form of immortality through one's progeny, which he likens to a 'proxy attendance' in the world.
