Acharya Prashant explains that there are two centers of life, and it is impossible for any person to live from both centers simultaneously. A choice must be made, as one cannot cleverly try to have the best of both worlds. This is a rule with no exceptions: one person, one center. Both centers have their own attractions and call out to the individual. The first center is the common center, which is comprised of Prakriti (nature/body) and society (conditioning/culture). We are born centered in Prakriti, and a newborn operates purely from this center, driven by bodily needs like hunger and safety. As we grow, society and education reinforce this center, making us more cultured animals who justify our primal actions with higher ideals. For instance, an educated person might justify killing an animal by saying it is to please a master in the sky, whereas it is the same primal act an animal in the jungle commits. The second center is the Ram-center, the center of Truth, which is available only to humans. To reach this, one must become displaced or 'mad' (baura) from the perspective of the common center. Acharya Prashant quotes Sant Kabir: "If I am mad, it is for you, Ram. What do the people of the world know of my inner secret?" This madness is a necessary choice. One cannot be respectable in the eyes of both the world and Ram. One must choose whose disapproval to face. This choice brings a feeling of alienation from the world, a sense that this is not one's true home. This feeling of being a stranger leads to a state of divine madness. Quoting Sant Kabir again, "I am a madwoman, and Ram is my husband. For this reason, I adorn myself." This adornment is not for the world but for Ram. The real adornment is shedding the conditionings one has acquired. Similarly, the poet Dhumil is quoted: "He had to live with the least distance between life and living. That's why in one gaze he was a diamond, and in another, a scoundrel." It is impossible to be a diamond in everyone's eyes. Relationships in the world are based on the common center of body and conditioning. A mother who does not know her own core (marm) cannot know her child's. Their bond is based on shared physical traits and social conditioning, like a shared fear of ghosts. People in the world cannot know your true self (Atman) because they are stuck at the level of the ego. Therefore, the complaint that "others don't understand me" is futile. The real question is whether they have the capacity to love at all, as they cannot love anyone, including themselves. Life is a choice between these two centers. One cannot ride in two boats simultaneously. The boat of the world goes in circles, while the boat of Ram goes to the other shore. Life truly begins only after making this choice. Those who do not choose are born dead and live dead, even if they are proud of their existence.