Acharya Prashant explains that there are two ways to respond when you dislike something. The common approach, taught even by wise people, is to try to change what you dislike. However, the speaker calls this foolishness. The alternative, and correct, approach is to understand it. Disliking something simply means you do not understand it. In existence, there is nothing that is truly dislikable; there is only understanding and misunderstanding. If something exists, it is wonderful and divine. It may even be a dream or a fantasy, but nothing is evil or dislikable. You only have to understand it. For instance, even the death of the body is not something to be mourned. While most people dislike death, it is something to be celebrated if you truly understand what it is. Everything is worthy of celebration if you understand it. Therefore, one should not try to change things, as that is stupidity. Instead, one should try to understand. From that understanding, if a change has to happen, it will happen on its own. The speaker uses the example of smoking, explaining that when you understand the entire process, you will see that you are actually longing for God. Because you don't understand this, you have found a cheap substitute in cigarettes. The act of smoking is related to an oral fixation, which connects a person to their first source of nourishment, the mother. This continues into adulthood. When you understand that smoking is nothing but your longing for God, you will drop the cigarette and hold on to the Self. You will leave the indirect route for the direct one. Every desire, whether it leads to murder, madness, or sex, is ultimately the same desire to reach the Timeless. Therefore, nothing is inherently bad. Every path, every effort, is an attempt to reach the same destination. This is why realization leads to compassion. You cannot be too angry at anyone, because you know that even when they are committing a murder, what they truly want is the same thing that a tree, a piece of chalk, a river, or you yourself want. Everyone wants the same thing. Their life may be distorted due to certain influences, which is why they might commit murder, but they still want the same thing. This understanding brings compassion.