Acharya Prashant explains that all human beings are puppets of their desires. This is our fundamental identity. Our thoughts, feelings, and actions all stem from our desires. The root of all desires is an unsatisfied mind. We are unsatisfied, so we desire, thinking that fulfilling desires will bring satisfaction. This is the story of every human being: having desires and wanting to fulfill them. To achieve this, people take different paths. Some chase money, others seek jobs, not for the sake of knowledge but for the job itself. This is where cheap spirituality comes in, which is just another path to fulfill desires and a part of the worldly marketplace. It entices people by promising to fulfill their desires, offering exactly what they already want. There is no difference between this cheap spirituality and a cheap market, both operating on demand and supply. People demand money, success, fame, and relationships, and so, religious shops are set up to cater to these cheap demands. True spirituality, in contrast, is about renunciation, not attainment. It is about letting go. We are unsatisfied consciousness, and true spirituality reveals that this dissatisfaction is something we have held onto unnecessarily out of ignorance. It is not our nature to be unsatisfied. Therefore, we do not need to gain anything; we need to let go. This is difficult for the common person to accept, as they feel they have very little and want to gain more. When true spirituality tells them to let go of what they have, they see it as ruinous. This is the fundamental conflict between the worldly person and true spirituality; they never get along. The common person experiences suffering but does not know its real cause, so they seek wrong remedies which only increase their suffering. It is like a mad person diagnosing their own illness. We are all sick in the mind, and we try to treat ourselves based on the advice of our sick mind. The ego does not want to admit it is sick and needs a cure from outside; it wants to be its own doctor. Acharya Prashant quotes Kabir, who said that everyone eats sweet things, which are like poison, while no one drinks neem, which cures all diseases. What is sweet to the mind—the fulfillment of desires—is poison. Our ruin is caused by our sweet desires. He also refers to a poem by Hafiz, which asks why there are so few people in the court of a perfect saint. The answer is that every time you go near him, you have to leave a piece of your ego behind, and the ego is unwilling to do that. True spirituality is not about fulfilling desires but about understanding and transcending them.