Acharya Prashant addresses the concept of 'escaping' and the guilt associated with it. He questions the very definition of escape, asking how one determines a 'right' or 'wrong' action or place. He explains that labeling an action as an escape often stems from having an unrealistic self-image and a concept of how things 'should' be, rather than accepting how they are. When one feels they should have been doing something else, like reading instead of surfing social media, they are comparing reality to a hollow imagination. He emphasizes that wherever a person is at any given moment is the only possibility that could have existed based on their constitution and the nature of things. Acharya Prashant asserts that life could not have taken any other turn than it did. He advises against lamenting the past or feeling regret, as everything that happened was the only possible outcome given the state of the individual and the universe. To be something else, the entire universe would have had to be different. He encourages living in the present moment, which he calls the climax of life, and doing what must be done now instead of reprimanding oneself for past actions. By getting rid of illusions and arbitrary imaginations, one can stop the cycle of guilt and simply admit that their current state is the routine of their own nature.
