A questioner expresses his distress over a relative who is in heavy debt due to his daughter's wedding. He notes that statistics show around 60% of marriages are funded by loans, and people spend about 20% of their earnings on them, and asks Acharya Prashant why this happens. Acharya Prashant explains that people do this because they find it enjoyable. He states that in India, the biggest festival is the wedding festival, even more significant than Holi or Diwali. People take loans to celebrate this festival. He then questions what this festival is truly about. Comparing it to Independence Day, which celebrates political freedom, or Diwali, which celebrates Shri Ram's return, he asks what a wedding celebrates. He defines it as a 'festival of the body' (deh ka utsav), a celebration of two bodies coming together. He calls it a festival of animality (pashuta ka utsav). Because we are people who are body-identified, the biggest festival in our lives is the wedding festival. To give this animalistic act a respectable cover, we involve religion, society, and law. This leads to a major economic distortion, where resources are spent on non-value-adding industries like banquet halls, cosmetics, and jewelry. This is also linked to farmer suicides, who take loans for weddings and dowries. The money spent on a daughter's wedding could have been invested in her education, but that is not done. The speaker also mentions the story of Socrates, who was poisoned for encouraging people to seek definitions and clarity, a practice needed to question such blind traditions. He points out that we don't even know what we are doing. Acharya Prashant concludes by stating that in an internally evolved society, the relationship between a man and a woman would be a simple affair. The real festivals would be about celebrating achievements of consciousness, such as overcoming fear or making a courageous decision. He urges people to create new traditions and festivals that are not tied to the body and its compulsions, but rather to the elevation of consciousness.