Acharya Prashant explains that gold is not a resource that one has, nor is it there to serve the individual. Instead, the individual is at the service of gold and must work for it. He posits that since gold is more valuable than stone, it is obvious that the stone must work for the gold, not the other way around. This is why people work for money and riches, because they know that money and riches are more precious than their own being. It is a logical thing to do; the worthless one has to work for the stuff that is worthy. He states that you know inside yourself that you are a worthless being, a worthless piece of stone, and therefore you keep serving gold. Wherever you find gold, you bow down to it and want to add it to your life. However, this pursuit doesn't add up to anything worthwhile. If you have a little gold, you are a servant to a little gold; if you accumulate a lot of gold, you are a servant to a lot of gold. The more you accumulate, the bigger a servant you are. You are working hard to deepen your servility and to fetch more masters to rule over you. He urges the listener to ask themselves, "Do your resources exist for you, or do you exist for your resources?" He uses analogies like being the owner versus the guard of your house, or being inside your clothes versus the clothes being all over you. He then narrates a Sufi story about Junayd, who sees a man with a cow. Junayd asks his disciples who leads whom. When they say the man leads the cow, Junayd cuts the leash. The cow sprints away, and the man runs after it. Junayd then asks, "Now you tell me, who leads whom?" The bondage of the cow was at least material, requiring a leash. But the bondage of the man is so subtle; the cow is leading the man with nothing to leash him with except his own mind, self, and ego. The question to ask is, "Do I own my things, or do my things own me?" In some sense, spirituality is all about unleashing yourself, which is freedom from bondage. The leash is the bondage.