Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why people who live a life contrary to the core principles of scriptures and spirituality still appear to be full of self-confidence. He explains that this confidence is a facade born out of fear and the pursuit of pleasure. A life lived against compassion, understanding, and righteousness is a life of delusion, deception, violence, and greed. However, this life provides certain immediate pleasures, such as the security of a predictable future. Even if one's actions are wrong, the assurance of receiving a certain outcome, like money, provides a kind of pleasure that people cling to. Simultaneously, because a human being is conscious, there is an underlying awareness that this way of life is not right. This awareness gives rise to fear—fear of questioning one's life, fear of the unknown alternative, and fear of losing the current pleasures. Ordinary worldly pleasures are always accompanied by this fear. To cope with this internal fear, one must pretend to be fearless, which manifests as confidence. Therefore, confidence is an attempt by a scared mind to appear fearless. It is not true fearlessness (abhayata). Confidence and diffidence are two sides of the same coin; where there is confidence on the outside, there is diffidence on the inside. A truly fearless person, in contrast, is not confident but is at ease (sahaj). There is no difference between their inner and outer states. They are like flowing water that finds its way around obstacles without aggression. Confidence, on the other hand, is always aggressive because it stems from fear. The speaker concludes by stating that the confidence people display is a cover-up for their inner fear. They don't want to let go of this fear because it is intrinsically linked to the pleasures and conveniences they receive. True ease is a state of being, not an aggressive posture.