In response to a question about feeling both strength and tension when moving from wrong to right, Acharya Prashant explains that one must go through that tension. He states that ease is not such a cheap thing that it can be obtained just by sitting around, and one should not even make such a demand. One has to go through tension. Without going through tension, even inanimate objects cannot come to you. He gives the example of a microphone and the clothes one wears, explaining that they have gone through immense tension and heat to be manufactured. Every fiber has passed through tension and heat. The speaker asserts that the demand to not bear tension is futile. Instead, one should pray for the stamina to be able to take on and endure more tension. Without it, how will one be formed or improve? The prayer should not be to avoid tension, but to have the strength to not break, no matter how much tension there is. He clarifies that these are two very different things: one is saying, "I don't want examinations," and the other is saying, "I want the strength to pass the examinations." The latter is the correct prayer to have. Acharya Prashant acknowledges that in spirituality, there is a lot of talk about how to live without tension, but he calls this a big lie. In the hope of living without tension, you just end up hiding the tension, burying it in your unconscious mind. But that corpse will rise, and those ghosts will roam within. Being born a human is a punishment that involves bearing tension. However, you can certainly do this much: bear the right tension, and bear it with a little bit of courageous effort. He advises choosing the right tension, which is the tension that cuts the ego. For useless things, one should have an attitude of neglect. For example, on the issue of who gets to eat the samosa, one should not take tension and just let the other person have it. It should be clear which things to neglect and on which issues to stand firm without compromise.