Acharya Prashant begins by asking the audience to reflect on how quickly life passes, as if in the blink of an eye. He points out that it feels like only a few days ago they were young, in school or college, or even children running around in the fields and streets. Suddenly, one finds they are 30, 40, 50, or 60 years old. The time that has passed has gone by with a snap of the fingers, and the remaining time will also pass just as quickly. He emphasizes that the moment of birth was not long ago, and similarly, the moment of lying on the funeral pyre is not far in the future. Time is extremely limited. Given the limited nature of time, the speaker advises not to make mistakes. He elaborates that one should not give the status of the soul (Atma) to the perishable body, which is merely ashes, soil, blood, water, bones, and flesh. While the soul may be immortal and imperishable, the body is a guest for only a few days and will not last. This understanding is what he defines as spirituality (Adhyatma). Spirituality is not about knowing the soul, but about knowing oneself—the mind, the body, and this perishable existence. One who knows this perishable nature becomes established in the knower. The soul cannot be known, but one can be established in the soul. Spirituality is knowing that you will not be here tomorrow. Acharya Prashant explains that people get entangled in small tricks, cleverness, minor gains, and losses, and time slips away without them noticing. He calculates that in a 75-year lifespan, if you remove 15 years of adolescence, the last 10 years of old age, 25 years of sleep, and about 15 years for daily chores and necessities, you are left with only about 10 years of conscious, energetic time to do something meaningful. He laments that even these ten years are often wasted in smoke—in lust, jealousy, the pursuit of money, domestic squabbles, and gossip. The life of a human is like that of a monsoon insect; it passes by quickly. He concludes by addressing the common illusion of having a lot of time. The ego considers itself to be the soul, and thus, immortal. This feeling that we will go on forever makes us disrespect and waste time. He questions the audience about how they spend their time, asking for the reason behind their daily activities. He points out that the only capital one has is time, and it is slipping through their hands. He asks if one would not feel suffocated and disgusted by wasting their precious minutes and hours in foolishness. The total time available for constructive action is so little that there is no room for the endless entanglements people indulge in.