Acharya Prashant explains that individuals often live in a metaphorical room of mirrors where they see their own reflection but fail to recognize it as themselves. Due to self-distrust and a lack of self-love, people view these reflections as external threats or strangers. He describes how people try to escape this by 'breaking the mirrors'—avoiding situations, people, or truths that reflect their inner state. Eventually, one might even pretend to be blind to avoid the reality of who is looking back from the mirror. This cycle of avoidance continues until the moment of self-realization, when one understands that the observer and the observed are one and the same.