Acharya Prashant explains that to understand the nature of the body, one should look at the pictures of film stars, who gained fame through their bodies, in their youth and old age. This will clarify what the body is. It is a good way to be free from body-consciousness. He suggests looking at the current pictures of a superstar from the 70s or a female star from that era. Many of them feel ashamed to be photographed now. Previously, one might have thought of beautiful skin, attractive flesh, the body, curves, and the navel as attractive. But what is there to kiss and caress in this skin, just beneath which lie feces, pus, bile, urine, and various kinds of impurities? They are just not visible because they are hidden behind a thin sheet of skin. How can one who has this thought live in body-consciousness? Whether anyone else knows about your body or not, you certainly do. We hide many things from others; when we come in front of others, we wipe the gunk from our eyes, clean the dirt from under our nails, and if we fart in a gathering, we do it secretively. But you know the reality and worth of your own body. It is a great dishonesty to go and entice others by showing the body. Before meeting the one you are trying to entice, you use a mouth freshener. You know how much bad odor rises from your mouth; it rises from everyone's mouth. Yet, you create an artificial fragrance in your mouth. Are you deceiving the other person or yourself? And then such relationships break, leading to great disappointment and shock. Initially, you would go with shining teeth and after gargling with mouthwash. Then, once the relationship was established, one day you went just like that, after eating an onion dosa, and asked for a kiss from your beloved. If the beloved continues to live in body-consciousness even after that moment, she is deserving of hell. He narrates that this happened with Prince Siddhartha. Some sages had warned his father that his son might become an ascetic. So, the father made great arrangements to ensure his son never felt sorrow, gathering all means of pleasure and indulgence. The most beautiful girls of the kingdom were called to be with his son, for revelry, song, and dance. The story goes that one night, the song and dance went on late. All the girls who came had drunk, and perhaps Siddhartha drank too. They all lay unconscious. Late at night, around dawn, Siddhartha's sleep broke, and he regained consciousness. He saw all those beautiful women, the top-class beauties, lying unconscious and passed out. He imagined seeing their makeup washed away, drool coming from their mouths, their beautiful clothes in disarray, some looking ugly instead of provocative, some lying with their mouths wide open, some snoring, and some having vomited and lying in their own vomit. Siddhartha saw all this and thought, if this is the reality of beauty, then I don't want it. Beauty is appealing only when it comes with great preparation. He suggests that all men should be made to work in a women's beauty parlor for at least three months. There, they would see the reality of the youth and beauty they are so crazy about. They would see that more fruits and vegetables are smeared on the face than are found in the kitchen, and all sorts of chemicals are rubbed on the body. Eyebrows are plucked, hair is removed, hair is dyed, wax is rubbed, and there are screams of pain, all so the body can appear attractive. Whoever has seen this business, tell me, how will they now give value to the body?