Acharya Prashant responds to a question about making the right choices in life by first confronting the questioner with the reality of death. He asks what one would do by saving oneself, pointing out that everyone is destined to die. He uses the graphic imagery of a body being cremated in an Indian cremation ground, where a dog might urinate on the ashes, to illustrate the ultimate fate of the physical self, including one's fair face and beard. He suggests that if one accepts this eventuality as if it has already happened, the tendency to protect and preserve the self will disappear. Addressing the question of how to know if one is on the right path when faced with numerous options, Acharya Prashant advises keeping a watch on oneself. Every external path has an internal effect. One must observe what effect a particular path has on them after taking a few steps on it. He emphasizes the need for experimentation, stating that every experiment reveals something. The problem is not that experiments fail, but that even when one realizes a path is having a negative internal effect, they continue on it because it offers some pleasure. Hope then comes to support this wrong choice, suggesting that while there is pleasure now, the benefit will come later. We have a vested interest in accepting this fallacious reasoning because we want the immediate pleasure. He quotes the Bhagavad Gita, saying, "When the eye is filled with desire, the truth is not seen." The truth of which path is right is not difficult to know, but we have trained ourselves to choose pleasure, and thus, the seen truth is ignored. Desire defeats all understanding. He explains that people knowingly swallow the fly in their drink because it is in their favorite sherbet. He then quotes Kabir Saheb, stating that when the eyes are filled with desire, the truth is not seen. The truth of the twenty paths is not hard to know, but when a person has trained themselves to seek only pleasure, even the visible truth becomes hidden. Acharya Prashant outlines a two-step process. First, through honest experimentation and examination, get a hint of what is right. Second, once you know what is right, commit to it. Do not make the seen unseen, the known unknown, or the heard unheard. He warns against using phrases like "I thought so," "I felt so," "It was my assumption," or "I wasn't in the mood" as excuses. He concludes by stating that there must be a love in life that is far beyond the mind, its moods, and its swings—a love that can completely arrest you.