Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how to be a spiritual seeker (Sadhak) when one is hurt by questioning the premise itself. He posits that if one truly loved spiritual practice (Sadhana) and wanted to be a seeker, they would not get hurt in the first place. Getting hurt shows that one is not merely wrongly identified, but actively wants to remain in that state of wrong identification. Otherwise, it is possible for someone who is erroneously identified to feel grateful when that identification is attacked, as it frees them from a mistaken attachment. Feeling humiliated instead of grateful indicates that one was relishing the false identification. The speaker explains that the true Self cannot be hurt; it is the ego that gets hurt. The ego suffers because it attaches itself to an object that is prone to attack and destruction. He uses the analogy of betting on the wrong horse. When the horse loses, the person who bet on it feels humiliated, not the horse. A person with right intentions would feel relief, not hurt, upon realizing they bet on the wrong horse, as they are now free from it. Instead, one cries hoarse with indignation and supreme insult, which doesn't make sense. Feeling hurt is a sign that one's wrong want—the desire for a false identification to persist—has been thwarted. First, one is wanting wrongly. Second, one wants that wrong want to continue. Third, when those intentions are frustrated, one cries. This is not the state of a seeker. A true seeker has no time to entertain themselves with petty things like hurt, which is a great entertainment in the cycle of getting hurt and giving hurt. The real spiritual practice (Sadhana) for such a person is to realize their own mischief. The speaker concludes by stating that the questioner is not a seeker, and this blunt realization is the help being offered.