Acharya Prashant begins by explaining that to love something, one must know about it. A nation, at its root, represents a community of people united through certain values. Therefore, for someone to truly love their nation, it is important that they first know what those values are. Fundamentally, these values must exist, be worth loving, and cannot be just theoretical ideals on paper. The speaker then asks what the Indian nation stands for. A nation does not become admirable, respectable, or lovable just by the dint of being a nation. He points out that some nations are founded on hatred towards a group of people, and many such nations exist because of a dislike towards something. There have been nations in history that existed just to obliterate other nations, and others where the connecting thread is as fragile as a shared language, ethnicity, or food habits. A nation is not necessarily lovable on its own. When two people say they are Indian, the question arises: what connects and unites them? Most people, he observes, are more eager to talk of "Diversity" than the underlying "Oneness," because talking of diversity is easy. It is commonsensical to ask that if each person is different, what is it that enables them to be called an Indian? When one says they love India, but when asked what exactly they love, they have no answer. For most people, India is just a bit of land, a boundary on the global map, a political entity. These are not things one can fall in love with. To fall in love with something, it must have a sacredness to it. If one is to really love India, then India has to be more than a political entity; one has to know the values that constitute India. For that, there have to be values, and people who worship those values. The speaker asserts that India has been a nation because of its "Vedantic foundation." He acknowledges this might be risky for most people to acknowledge, but it is what lies at the base of the Indian nation: values that come from Vedanta. The reason youngsters have a shallow relationship with the nation today is that they are not familiar with the underlying values, the underlying Vedanta. Their idea of India is limited to superficial things like Masala Dosa, Bollywood, or the cow on the highway. While these are vibrant images of the Indian landscape, one cannot fall in love with them. To love, one needs something sublime, sacred, and worth worshipping. The speaker concludes that the identity of India, the root of the Indian nation, is essentially spiritual. If you devoid Indians of spirituality, they will remain Indians only in name. As long as the youth remain in touch with the essence of the nation, the nation will stay safe. When the youth start losing touch with Vedanta, the nation starts losing its inner security. Nationalism must flourish in India, but not the shallow kind that led to world wars, but a nationalism founded on truly Indian values, which he specifies as the values enshrined in Vedanta.