Acharya Prashant begins by stating that while he used to teach leadership two decades ago, he has since moved on, as spirituality is more of an inner pursuit, and leading others is not a topic he usually speaks on. He emphasizes that if one wants to lead people, it is crucial to understand the difference between healing and exploitation. A leader can be like the Pied Piper, leading people to their doom. This might register some success for a while, and a snapshot might show a leader with a large following, but ultimately, it doesn't help. The maximum one can draw from such leadership is a few months of fame. Leadership is defined as engagement with a lot of people, and a leader must be very conscious of what this engagement is doing to the other person. One cannot relate to others to perpetuate their own darkness. If you are not at ease with yourself, you cannot lead. Drawing from his past experience conducting management development programs with top management, he asserts that to lead is not to befool or charm people. A leader must first go within and figure out what they have to offer others. It is a great disrespect and injustice to approach someone before being internally sorted. He questions the act of infecting others with one's own desires in the name of leadership and motivation, especially when one does not know the source of their own motivations. A leader must be sure that the goals they have set for themselves have first been auspicious for them. What has not worked for the leader will not work for the follower. The path a leader is on must be beneficial for themself, not one they are sleepwalking on. The best leaders are genuinely good for their followers and, in turn, produce more leaders. In contrast, general leaders are often more exploiters than leaders, as they have a stake in never letting the follower become a leader. Engagement is a tremendous responsibility. When you touch someone, whether as a teacher or a leader, you must do so with responsibility, care, and love; otherwise, you should not touch them at all. Speaking to someone means entering their mind, and one cannot do so to spoil it. This applies to policy-making in organizations, which affects many people. A leader must be conscious of what their policies are doing to the minds of employees, customers, and the general public. All businesses exist to fulfill a need, and the most fundamental need of a human being is realization, illumination, peace, or love. Therefore, a business must, through its product or service, bring illumination and peace to its customer, because the customer is first and foremost a human being.