Acharya Prashant suggests an exercise to understand the nature of the world. He asks the questioner to watch a late-night show, around 11 or 11:30 PM, at a shopping mall. After the show, around 2 or 2:30 AM, one should observe the atmosphere in the mall. At that hour, the bright lights will have dimmed, and the glamorous, well-dressed young people will have disappeared. Instead, one will see poor laborers in torn clothes with withered bodies. These laborers are often seen rubbing the walls with sandpaper, creating a harsh sound, or cleaning the floors, sometimes even young children, so that the next day people can come and shop again. This work happens only after the crowd has dispersed. The speaker explains that this is the nature of Maya (illusion). What appears attractive on the surface, like the food at a fair, is often harmful to one's health. The price tag on an item, for example, ₹600, is not its real value; it might be sold for ₹300-400. This discrepancy between appearance and reality is the lie. Similarly, people celebrate festivals like Dussehra without understanding their religious or spiritual significance. They are there for the spectacle, dressed in fine clothes, but are ignorant of the meaning of Dharma or the festival itself. This is the falsehood of the world: what appears to be one thing is actually something else. The festival, meant for joy, is attended by people who are not truly joyful. The speaker points out that the places where the world is most glamorous and noisy are the best places to see its falsehood, as there is always a hidden, unpleasant reality behind the facade. He quotes the poet Dhumil: "Every faith has a back door that opens next to the toilet."