Acharya Prashant explains that the concept of discipline is only applicable to the bonded mind, as a free person naturally abides in a divine order and requires no external striving. The bonded mind exists in a self-sustaining, vicious cycle of patterns that it often mistakes for freedom. Because these patterns have no inherent interest in their own dissolution, discipline is necessary as an external or internal force that disrupts this normal, repetitive behavior. He emphasizes that discipline is a break from the normal pattern and is required as long as one holds the idea of being separate from freedom or has the urge to achieve and become something.