Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the burden of repaying debts to parents and others who have contributed to one's life. The questioner feels she cannot live freely due to the expectation of repaying these debts, a concept she has been taught since childhood, particularly the unrepayable debt to her parents for giving her life. Acharya Prashant begins by acknowledging the transactional nature of the world: what is taken must be repaid. If you receive bread, you repay with bread; if your body is cared for, you care for another's body. He then pivots to the fundamental question, "Who are you?" If you identify solely with the body, then those who created and nurtured it become your gods, and you are eternally indebted to them, a debt that can never be fully repaid. This body-centric view is the root of the problem. He explains that life has different dimensions, and the currency of one dimension is not valid in another. Just as one cannot demand love in exchange for money, one should not repay a physical debt with one's soul. The soul (Atma) is unborn and undying; it is free and not indebted to anyone. The body is born from parents, but the soul is not. He quotes Kahlil Gibran to support this: "Your children come through you but not from you." Acharya Prashant advises repaying debts at the appropriate level. A physical debt should be repaid physically. Selling one's soul—the mind progressing towards the Self—to repay a physical debt is a grave mistake. He criticizes the tendency to have multiple "truths" or "gods," bowing down to anyone who offers worldly benefits, from parents and spouses to celebrities and politicians. This divided loyalty makes one weak. He contrasts this with the strength that comes from one-pointed devotion, even if it is to a single lie. Those who are loyal to their falsehoods often show more conviction than those who claim to follow the truth but are disloyal and unwilling to pay the price. He concludes that the debt of the body, like a mother's milk, does not apply to the Truth or the Self, which is free. One must repay all worldly debts but not by sacrificing one's spiritual freedom.