Acharya Prashant explains that the majority does not decide what is universally good or bad. The majority consists of persons who are all conditioned in their own ways. He uses an analogy, stating that it is like saying all are diseased, but the symptoms of the disease are different in different people. The common thing is that all are conditioned. These different people call themselves different from each other depending on the symptoms they exhibit. For example, if the central disease, which is an obfuscation of health, shows up in one person as a high temperature, that person starts identifying with it as their central identity. In another person, the same disease might show up as high blood pressure, and they will think of themselves as someone centered around that condition. These two individuals think of themselves as different, but the fact remains they are very much alike as they share a central, common disease. What is called the majority is actually just a conditioned lot of people. Whether it is a majority or a minority, like a hundred drunkards versus ten drunkards, it does not matter. Just because something is a majority view, it holds no credence, and similarly, a minority view is not special. Therefore, standards of good, bad, right, and wrong are not set by the majority, the minority, or even the individual. The question to ask is whether the person holding the view has taken care to cleanse their mind and paid the price for freedom. The crowd is not only outside of you; the crowd is within you as well. When you are physically in a crowd, it is easier to acknowledge that you are influenced and conditioned. In contrast, when the crowd is inside you, it is much more difficult to realize you are controlled by it. You start feeling and asserting that you are a free man who lives by your own personal beliefs and convictions, which is totally false. Most people who believe in free thought or free will are actually highly conditioned. Free thought is not free at all; free will is not free at all. There is great egoistic pleasure in declaring oneself a free man, especially when one is in bondage within. Therefore, one should go neither by the crowd nor by their inner beliefs. One must keep striving for the Truth. Remember that the outside and the inside are not very different; what we call our inside is composed mostly of external influences. So, the inside is not inside at all. One should stop identifying with the so-called inside, the so-called person, the so-called individual self. Instead, pay attention and acknowledge that there is bondage all around and within. Paying attention to the facts of your slavery will enable you to move towards the Truth and have the freedom to enter the Truth.