Acharya Prashant addresses a questioner who asks why one should pursue spirituality for liberation if, as the speaker has stated, individual rebirth does not happen. The questioner posits that if rebirth is only of the collective (Samashti) and not the individual, then everyone must get 'default liberation' after death, making spiritual efforts in this life pointless. Acharya Prashant begins by pointing out the fundamental misunderstanding in the questioner's premise regarding their own present state. He explains that the desire for liberation in a future life, or in the 18th life, can only arise from someone who is under the delusion that their current life is perfectly fine and free from bondage. If one truly recognizes their present suffering and bondage, the urgency for liberation would be for this very moment, not for some distant future. If, on the other hand, one feels no bondage in the present, then the question of seeking liberation, whether now or later, becomes irrelevant. The speaker clarifies that the purpose of spirituality is not to grant liberation after ten or five hundred years; its connection is with the present, not the future. Spirituality, he states, urges you to see your handcuffs and chains right now—the chains on your body, your mind, and your entire being. A person who truly sees these chains will demand freedom immediately. He dismisses the popular, childish, story-like interpretations of rebirth and the soul as products of ignorance, comparing them to children's magazine stories. He elaborates that people, due to their limited intellect, have distorted the profound meanings of the scriptures. They fail to understand the vast difference between the 'Jivatma' (the individual soul), which he calls the greatest deception and illusion, and the 'Atma' (the Self), which is the one, infinite, eternal Truth. This misunderstanding has led to a version of spirituality that, instead of freeing one from suffering, only deepens the confusion. The person who is truly troubled by their bondages will not create such a long story about future lives; they will seek freedom now.