Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of unhappiness in marriage by first questioning the premise of finding happiness in any external thing. He posits that if a person is unhappy with their spouse, they are likely also unhappy with their job, their house, and even themselves. The problem, he explains, is not the spouse but the unrealistic expectations cultivated around the institution of marriage. If one is not joyful from within, no man or woman can enter their life and make them joyful. He critiques popular literature and movies for promoting the false idea that a magical person can enter one's life and transform it, stating this cannot happen. An individual who is not content before marriage will not be content during or after it; the marriage itself is a mirage. The speaker describes the institution of marriage as a very practical, not spiritual, arrangement. He states that we are animals, and if men and women are not formalized into a relationship by law and religion, there is a possibility of utter chaos and anarchy. Marriage has succeeded not because it offers something spiritual, but because it contains our animalistic nature. It is a useful institution constructed to provide a "bodymate," not a soulmate. He asserts that a person enters into marriage because they lack the internal discipline to lead a single life. Therefore, marriage is a necessary condemnation for those who are lustful, insecure, and lonely. Acharya Prashant explains that from a spiritual perspective, we are all born "married." A man is born as Consciousness (Purusha) coupled with Nature (Prakriti), his inherent wife. The spiritual process, he clarifies, is to achieve a divorce from this Prakriti, which the scriptures call a "second birth" (Dwij). To not marry is an accomplishment, a status that must be achieved through spiritual discipline. True love, he concludes, is the exclusive domain of a spiritual mind, which does not rush to someone of the opposite gender to seek fulfillment. With this understanding, one can have tempered and realistic expectations from marriage, seeing it for the practical arrangement it is.