Acharya Prashant emphasizes that understanding is more important than agreement or disagreement, which often stem from conditioning. He questions the fundamental assumption that life must be a process of achievement and attaining goals. He points out that the idea of dividing life into success and failure is not an individual's own understanding but is imposed by education, media, family, and society. This process of conditioning operates through greed and fear, where external rewards or disincentives drive a person's actions. He explains that because this conditioning happens over a long period, individuals delude themselves into thinking that these external goals are their own desires. He likens a conditioned person to a slave or a programmed computer that believes it is functioning on its own, while it is actually following a program set by others. He invites the audience to examine their own minds and realize that most of their goals, such as pursuing specific degrees or jobs, are actually expectations from others rather than their own. Acharya Prashant suggests that when one becomes attentive to the processes of the mind in the present moment, they find that there are no goals. He asserts that while one is free to pursue goals after understanding them, it is crucial to first see if those pursuits are truly their own. He concludes that at the age of eighteen or twenty, it is high time for individuals to use their own intelligence to understand their lives, as they are the ones who must live them, not those who influence or condition them.
