Acharya Prashant analyzes the statement, "You are so powerful actually that you are scared of yourself." He explains that there are three instances of 'you' in this statement. The first two refer to the small self or the ego, while the last one, 'yourself,' refers to something dimensionally different: the best that you can be, the Great Self, the Truth, or classically, the Atman. The first two 'yous' can also be referred to as 'Aham,' the ego, while the third 'yourself' can be seen as the dissolved, ascended, or purified ego. The core meaning of the statement is that the ego is afraid of its own betterment. The ego becomes so accustomed to its littlenesses and its familiar excuses of powerlessness and worthlessness that it cannot tolerate reaching a point where these excuses no longer hold. The speaker illustrates this with an analogy: telling a fat man he can run 100 meters in ten seconds is a statement of his potential, but it scares him because achieving it would require him to shed his current state and habits. Conversely, if you tell the same man that he cannot run too fast, he is happy, even though it's a statement of his limitation and powerlessness. This is because it validates his current state. The ego doesn't want to give up; it wants to accumulate and become bigger. The betterment of the ego, however, is nothing but the reduction of the ego. Betterment implies getting smaller, and the ego does not want to get smaller. This is the source of the fear mentioned in the statement.