Acharya Prashant explains that when something truly new comes before us, we get scared. The mind wants only one thing: security. It wants to continue in time, not to die or come to an end. The mind's logic for survival is to repeat what it has done before, reasoning that if it did not die in the past, it will not die in the future either. This is the mind's method of avoiding death, and this is why we are always afraid of the new. However, this method of survival is foolish because, in the world of the mind, 'new' is merely a repetition of the old. In reality, within existence, the new is genuinely new and has no connection to the old. Whatever we encounter at any moment is completely new, appearing for the first time, and such a moment will never come again. This creates a significant problem. On one hand, there is the brain, which does not understand the new and only comprehends old patterns. On the other hand, there is existence, which has nothing old and is always new. Consciousness contains nothing old, while the past is entirely old. Man gets stuck between these two poles. Acharya Prashant quotes Kabir Saheb, who said, 'Between two millstones, no one remains whole.' These two millstones are the past and the present, or consciousness. The mind wants to live in the past or create a future, both of which are not the present. Life, however, is always in the present. The mind is always either in the past or the future. You are here, in the present, but your mind is either behind or ahead. This is the predicament: you are in the present, breathing and understanding in the present, but the mind is in memories, wanting to run on the same old tracks. Life is new, but the mind is old.