Acharya Prashant explains that without a firm name or identity, one becomes what others want them to become. For instance, a car manufacturer wants a person to be a buyer, so they look at the car and turn into a prospective buyer. Similarly, if a woman, consciously or subconsciously, wants a man to be attentive, he turns into an attending man as per her dictate. Realizing this utter helplessness will cause one to revolt against oneself. One would then see that all these external inputs are actually assaults and invasions. If a person were truly nobody, they would not feel bad about this enslavement, just as a stone does not cry against slavery. The fact that the enslavement hurts and “curdles your blood” means there is a free spirit within you. However, this free spirit is only invoked when presented with the fact of slavery. If you do not know you are enslaved, your free spirit remains dormant. Likewise, if you keep presenting slavery itself as the free spirit, it remains peacefully asleep. For the free spirit to rise, act, and rebel, one must first acknowledge to oneself that they are neck-deep in slavery. This acknowledgment creates a contradiction and a conflict between the freedom of the spirit and the fact of one's slavery. This inner conflict, this inner war, is necessary. Peace is great, but false peace is deadly. The seeker of peace must be ready to forgo false peace and experience disquiet and turbulence, because awakening begins with suffering. The process is not pleasant, as one is moment after moment bombarded with the fact of their own impotency and helplessness. One would want to resist and deny this fact. But the fact is real and must not be denied. When you acknowledge this fact, an inner strife is bound to occur. By spirit, you are free, and in life, you are in bondage; these two cannot go together. Let there be a war.