Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the difficulty of living what one knows due to Maya (illusion). He explains that everyone makes the mistake of misusing their knowledge. The key is not to avoid mistakes but to make them with pride, courage, and strength. He uses the analogy of a soldier, stating that if a soldier's body is found, the bullet wound should be on the chest, not the back. A wound on the back signifies a great problem. Similarly, one should make mistakes bravely, with height and power. If outsiders laugh, it is understandable, but one should not have the internal feeling of being small or inferior. The effort should be to constantly strive to become better. He further elaborates that in this process, one might get hurt or have their clothes torn, but that is inconsequential. The goal is to win, not to show off one's clothes. One should be willing to take a bullet wound, not a slap. He quotes a couplet, "Only the horse-rider falls in the battlefield; what will a child fall who crawls on his knees?" This means it is better to fall from a great horse, one that resounds in the sky, than to crawl. The mistakes should be made with dignity. He advises to keep correcting mistakes. The process of improvement doesn't end with a single correction but leads to a more subtle mistake. The goal is to make better mistakes than before, not to repeat them or make worse ones. Acharya Prashant clarifies that the end of improvement will not come until our own end, whether of the body or the ego. He says that in a sense, everything we do is a mistake because it can never be perfect. We are not angels fallen from the sky. He quotes Kabir Saheb, "Four people came together to make the bier, they lifted the wooden cot. From the four corners, they set it on fire, blowing it away like Holi. What kind of relationship is this with the world?" We should not forget our mortal nature. The journey of betterment is a sacrifice (yagya) where our mistakes are the offerings, and there is no shame in that. The feeling of shame itself is a great obstacle that eats away at our efforts and leads to hypocrisy. One must learn to laugh at oneself and one's follies.