Acharya Prashant addresses the saying, "To gain something, you have to lose something." He first explains that in the way this is commonly said, it implies that life is a business or a trade. For instance, to gain success, one must lose sleep, or to earn money, one must lose relationships. This perspective treats life as a zero-sum game, where a gain in one area necessitates a loss in another, keeping the total sum at zero. He describes this as the language of business, which, while factually correct in some worldly contexts, like exchanging money for goods, is not particularly profound or useful for deeper understanding. He then offers a different, more spiritual interpretation. He rephrases the saying as: "To know what you have already received, what you have already gained, you have to lose the falsehood." What is truly yours, your real nature, is already with you. To know this inherent reality, you must lose the falsehoods and conditioning that have been imposed upon you. He uses the analogy of a leaf covered in dust. The leaf is naturally beautiful and green, but to see its shine, it must lose the dust. It doesn't gain its shine back; the shine was always present but was obscured. Expanding on this, he says that to know your real nature, you need to get rid of your conditioning. What is lost is the conditioning, and what is revealed is the real nature, which was never truly lost but merely hidden or obfuscated. The intelligent person does not speak the language of achievement or attainment but the language of getting rid of what is false. The most precious thing is already with you. A mountain of dust, representing opinions, conditioning, and fears, has accumulated on the mind. The task is not to add more achievements but to remove this dust. By removing it, that which is your true nature will shine.