Acharya Prashant explains that we see something only when it blocks our vision and we take it as real. The moment we see something, it is confirmed as real to us. He questions whether the sages would ever behold 'Maya' (illusion). For the sages, Maya cannot block their vision because it doesn't reflect anything back to them, and to them, it is not real at all. Therefore, they see through Maya. If one can perfectly see through something, that thing does not exist for them. For ordinary people, however, Maya is real. We do not see through Maya; it obstructs our vision. Furthermore, we do not see it as an obstruction; we call the obstruction itself the vision. The speaker uses an analogy: if he asks someone to look at the sky but then shuts the doors on them, they might start calling the blackness of the doors the sky. The sky is real, so the doors must be seen as something that obstructs the real. Instead, we start calling the doors themselves the real. Similarly, whatever we see from morning till evening is an obstruction, not the reality. What we are seeing is the screen, not the sight. The speaker further clarifies that what we see of a person is just their skin, which is not who they truly are. The person as we see them does not exist at all. All we know is the skin, and that too, only some parts of it. Everything we trust has either already betrayed our trust or is vulnerable to betrayal. Our very insecurity is proof that we do not see anything as it is. This is because of the two powers of Maya: projection, which is seeing things where they are not, and concealment, which is not seeing things as they really are. The sages behold the truth everywhere because they do not behold anything else. They are not interested in the objects of the world. The joy of the sage is a pure happiness, without interests, reasons, or objects. This is the method of the Upanishads: 'Neti, Neti' (not this, not this), which is to negate everything to arrive at the Truth.