Acharya Prashant explains that the story of Swami Vivekananda is such that upon hearing it, one will not just get goosebumps but will weep. He reads from Swami Vivekananda's letters to illustrate the struggles he faced. In a letter to Swami Brahmananda in 1895, Vivekananda wrote with great fervor, "You all, gird up your loins and get to work. With just a roar, we will turn the world upside down. This is just the beginning, my children." He also expressed his frustration with the state of India, asking, "Is there any 'man' in our country? These are all like corpses in a cremation ground." He believed that great work is done by the middle class, not the wealthy, and that the people of his country were like children who needed to be treated as such. In another letter to Shri Alasinga Perumal in 1895, Swami Vivekananda asserted his independence, stating, "About me, just know this much that I will not walk on anyone's saying. What the vow of my life is, I decide myself." He declared his global identity, saying, "Just as I am of India, so I am of the whole world," and that his only politics is Truth. He faced slander from his own countrymen, who spread rumors that he was a fraud. He lamented that his compatriots would not even do him the small favor of telling Americans that he was a true monk, not a dishonest person. He identified jealousy as the main flaw of a slave race, which leads to its downfall, and called out the hypocrisy of those who would not help with even a single penny but were quick to offer foolish advice. Acharya Prashant further highlights Vivekananda's hardships through his letters. Due to the lack of funds and strenuous labor, his health deteriorated. He wrote to Miss Josephine MacLeod in 1900, "If one doesn't have to spend even a rupee, then people come in crowds to listen to me. But if even one rupee has to be given, then people don't come, this is the situation." He also faced opposition from established religious institutions. He wrote that most people did not welcome the newly born monastery, much less admire it. Instead, the monks had to face indifference, taunting, slander, and oppression. There were days when the Math had no food, and if rice was collected by begging, there was no salt to go with it. He was even cheated out of money meant to buy a house for his mother. Acharya Prashant explains that we worship great men only after they are dead because a living great man is like a fire, and we are afraid of being burned. The fire of a great man comes to burn our impurities, our ego, and our conditioning. We don't realize that this burning is for our own good; it is to burn away the trash so that the gold within can be revealed. When the great man is alive, we oppose him to avoid this burning. Once he is dead and no longer a threat, we build his statues and worship him, which is a safe way to avoid the real transformation he called for.