Acharya Prashant begins by stating that all of us are like Arjun, caught in our own flesh, blood, tears, emotions, and past. In this state, we forget our dharma, which is why the Bhagavad Gita is immortal. As long as the Arjun within us lives, we will continue to need Krishna. Responding to a question about why people are afraid to leave even abusive marriages, the speaker explains that the reason is the same as why people feel compelled to get into marriages in the first place. It is the pressure to conform, to belong to the crowd, and the fear of being labeled abnormal. There is an urge not to miss out on something that has been glamorized as extremely important and central. For instance, in India, 90-95% of movies are about a man and a woman getting together. This is what we are taught. Our lives are dictated by the forces of entertainment, which act as our teachers, mentors, guides, and de-facto gods. We spend so much time with these avenues of entertainment that we are bound to absorb the values they give us. From a very young age, we are indoctrinated to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman, and the highest ideal is the happy couple. This ideal is so deeply ingrained that it refuses to leave us even at an old age. This makes it impossible for us to even imagine a life that is not welded to somebody else's. The speaker clarifies that a wedding is essentially a 'welding'. This feeling does not come from biology or genetics, as this kind of welded relationship does not exist in nature. It comes from society and its avenues of entertainment. If one spends time with the Gita, the issues that get activated are about right action, self-knowledge, and one's relationship with the world. But if one watches a movie, the issue that gains importance is how to get a partner. This conditioning makes it scary to imagine a life alone. This fear comes from the scriptwriter who has declared this to be our destiny. The speaker asserts that nothing in life is irreversible, and the only thing one should never compromise on is the central purpose of life, which is liberation. Everything else is dispensable. One is free to be in a relationship or not to be. There is no God who will curse you for being solo, nor is there a special reward for remaining hitched. Most people are in relationships not out of freedom but out of compulsion, which is why there are so many jokes about husbands and wives—to mitigate the suffering. The curse is that we feel compelled to stay in rotten relationships and are constrained from entering the right ones.