Acharya Prashant addresses a question regarding the trend of lavish Indian weddings. He explains that this phenomenon should not be surprising, as a wedding is the ultimate celebration for a subjugated consciousness. He defines humans as beings of consciousness, but this consciousness is often subjugated to or enslaved by the body. This state is also referred to as body-identified consciousness. The fundamental condition of humans is that they are people with an enslaved consciousness, a consciousness that is a slave to the body. The body's ultimate desires are to have pleasure and to avoid death, which translates to seeking continuity. The institution of marriage is designed to ensure these two things. It provides a continuous supply of sexual pleasure, as well as the pleasure derived from emotional and financial security. Marriage also ensures reproduction, which is the body's method of achieving continuity. Because marriage represents the fulfillment of the animal body's deepest wants—pleasure, security, and continuity—it becomes the biggest celebration for body-identified people. This is why people go to such great lengths for weddings. Acharya Prashant contrasts this with what a truly conscious society would celebrate. Instead of celebrating the body, such a society would celebrate rising above it, such as finishing a great book, overcoming a physical limitation through willpower, or achieving something of an elevated consciousness. He points out the absurdity of celebrating the union of two bodies for sex, calling it obscene and vulgar. The grand spectacle of weddings, with loud music and lavish displays, is a way to mask the fundamentally animalistic nature of the event and pretend it is a noble, cultural affair. This pretense of being higher beings while celebrating base, bodily functions is a form of hypocrisy. He further links this societal obsession with lavish weddings to various social evils. The immense expenditure on weddings and dowry is a direct cause of farmer suicides and female feticide. The pressure to spend lavishly on a daughter's wedding leads to financial ruin, and the unequal investment in children's futures—where a son's education is prioritized over a daughter's because her value is tied to her marriage—perpetuates this cycle. The entire wedding industry, from cosmetics to event management, thrives on this culture. Acharya Prashant concludes that the obsession with weddings is a loud declaration of the cancer our society suffers from: a deep-seated identification with the body and a lack of higher, more conscious values.