A questioner asks Acharya Prashant why he can perform all worldly duties diligently but struggles to study scriptures for his own peace of mind, a task he can only manage in the speaker's presence. Acharya Prashant explains that this is a common, old pattern. He points out that even worldly tasks like office work are performed not out of inner motivation but due to external discipline, such as fixed timings, targets, and accountability to a boss. This has been the conditioned way of life for decades. This conditioning has created a deep-seated habit of acting only when one is answerable to someone else, only when there is a duty towards another. We have never learned to do anything purely for ourselves. "For ourselves" means for the Self, the Atma. Since we don't know the Atma, we cannot do anything for it. Consequently, an ordinary person spends their entire life doing things for others—be it family, society, or the body—but never for their own true Self. Their own inner center remains undeveloped and suppressed. When we try to do something for ourselves, like reading scriptures, we find ourselves unable because our internal system isn't prepared for it. We are accustomed to acting based on physical instincts or social instructions, always accountable to someone else. Acharya Prashant suggests using this very habit as a tool. Since we have learned to act only out of accountability, we should make reading scriptures a matter of accountability as well. He advises the questioner to make it a "duty" to report his progress to the Guru daily. While reading scriptures is ultimately a matter of love and understanding, not duty, this method of accountability can be used as a temporary measure. A time will come when this external reporting will no longer be needed. Then, one will find themselves reading scriptures and being with saints out of love, not compulsion. He encourages the questioner to remain steadfast, assuring him that what he seeks is what everyone seeks, and others will eventually join him on the path, as it is the shared destination of all.