Acharya Prashant responds to a question from someone inspired by Swami Vivekananda, who asks how to challenge their conditioning and maintain continuity with scriptures. The speaker advises looking at what Swami Vivekananda did: he lived by his convictions. Merely being impressed by someone or something is not sufficient; it is only a beginning. If something impresses you as true and valuable, the onus is upon you to bring that thing into your life. Otherwise, it's a strange situation to call something true and still live in a way quite opposite to it. Using Swami Vivekananda as an example, the speaker explains that when he felt the great teachings of Vedanta needed to reach the masses, he vigorously went about propagating them. His zeal carried him beyond the borders of his country and continent, which was not an easy feat in those days. He faced many hardships to fulfill his conviction. The speaker asserts that there is no bigger betrayal to oneself than to not live by one's deepest convictions. He contrasts this with people who have no convictions at all, whom he calls "rolling stones," and those who have convictions but lack the honesty and courage to actualize them into action. When one fails to act on their convictions, reading the scriptures becomes an exercise in humiliation. The scriptures will remind you of your impotence and self-deception, of an unkept promise and a pending payment. This leads to losing interest in the scriptures and the teacher. The only way to challenge your conditioning and maintain continuity with the scriptures is to constantly work on demolishing your conditioning. If you are not constantly progressing against your conditioning, you will soon lose interest in the scriptures. The happiness the Upanishads offer is not the normal, cheap kind; it is an exalted, transcendental, and challenging happiness—Anand—that you must pay a price for. It is a "difficult love."