Acharya Prashant explains that human beings often live as adults only in name, treating their lives like children by playing with 'toys' such as technology, entertainment, social media, and material success. He asserts that these external things fail to satisfy because there is an internal demand for something authentic and real. While small attractions like greed, prestige, and excitement proliferate in quantity to compensate for their lack of quality, they can never truly hold a person's interest for long. This leads to a cycle of hopping from one superficial choice to another, hoping for a new dawn that never arrives because the fundamental nature of the choices remains the same. He highlights that hope is often a problem rather than a virtue, as it is the hope that one can improve while remaining exactly as they are. According to Vedant, this is an impossibility because material things are unconscious and incapable of change. Only the conscious entity—the individual—has the capacity to change. However, the ego resists this change, preferring to believe it is already perfect. Consequently, humanity directs its energy toward changing external surroundings, which only results in different forms of the same unconscious material. Acharya Prashant concludes that since the mind is an imperfect consciousness seeking perfection, it cannot be rescued or healed by the unconscious world.