Acharya Prashant begins by stating that if you want to do good to others, you must first cut your own bonds. An incomplete person is greatly inauspicious for everyone. It is rare to find a person who is not their own enemy. To overcome this enemy, one must, with great effort, consciousness, courage, and love, bring into their life that which will destroy it. This is an act of great love, honesty, and courage because you are bringing in something that will finish you. This is not possible for an ordinary, cowardly person. To illustrate how the world is a projection of one's own desires and flaws, the speaker tells a story. For the children, a school is 'our school'. For wild animals, it is a place for food, a restaurant where small, fleshy, insecure children are served. For the contractor who built it, it is a client, a source of livelihood. For the education department, it is just 'number 42'. For the thousands of people who pass by it daily, the school is non-existent because it holds no meaning or self-interest for them. The world you perceive is not a fixed entity; it is what it means to you. Your own flaws manifest as the world before you. The ego (aham) only allows things into the mind that serve its self-interest. It uses its faculties, like intellect and memory, to find things that will provide relief, based on past experiences. The ego's world is an extension of its self-interest. Whatever is not in its self-interest is not seen or heard. The natural direction of desires is to seek more and more subjects from the world, to experiment with them, and to hold onto the hope that some subject will bring relief. This is the natural path of desire. There is another path, the path of love, which is to seek something that will truly end one's suffering. This is a difficult path, as it involves seeking a rare subject that will destroy the very basis of suffering. The speaker quotes the Ashtavakra Gita: "Desire is the world, so renounce it all. Renouncing desires is renouncing the world. Now, whatever the state of the body, the inner instrument, and the world, there is no relation to it." The liberated person is auspicious for themselves and the world, while the one in bondage is bad for everyone. An incomplete person, especially one with power, is a great danger to the world. Therefore, if you want to do good to others, first cut your own bonds.