Acharya Prashant explains that one is at the service of what one values. Using the analogy of gold and stone, he states that gold is not a resource to serve him; rather, he is at the service of gold. Since gold is inherently more valuable than stone, it is the stone that must work for the gold, not the other way around. This logic, he explains, is why people work for money and riches—they believe these external things are more precious than their own being. The speaker asserts that when people feel like a worthless piece of stone inside, they feel compelled to serve 'gold,' a metaphor for wealth and possessions. Wherever they find gold, they bow down to it and want to add it to their lives. The consequence of this mindset is that the more one accumulates, the bigger a servant one becomes. A person with a little gold is a servant to a little gold, while a person with a lot of gold is a servant to a lot of gold. In essence, people work hard only to deepen their servility and to acquire more masters to rule over them. He poses several questions to illustrate this point, such as, "Do your resources exist for you, or do you exist for your resources?" and "Are you the owner of your house or the guard of your house?" To further illustrate, Acharya Prashant narrates a Sufi story about Junayd of Baghdad, who sees a man leading a cow. Junayd asks his disciples who leads whom. After they give the obvious answer, Junayd cuts the cow's leash. The cow runs, and the man chases it. Junayd then repeats his question. The story highlights that the cow's bondage was material and visible, but the man's bondage was subtle and internal—his own mind, self, and ego. The fundamental question to ask oneself is, "Do I own my things, or do my things own me?" Spirituality, he concludes, is about unleashing oneself, which is freedom from this bondage.