Acharya Prashant explains that India historically revered sages who had discovered a state beyond thought, manifesting in their fearlessness and selflessness. However, commoners began to emulate the outward results of these sages without undergoing the arduous process of using the mind to its fullest potential. While sages reached the boundary of the mind through a painstaking journey and then transcended it, the masses mistakenly believed they could achieve the same state by simply dropping the mind prematurely. This led to a widespread rejection of logic, intellect, and rationality in favor of blind belief and superstition. Acharya Prashant points out that there are three levels of consciousness: the savage, the commoner, and the sage. Both the savage and the sage exist without the mind, but while the sage has gone beyond it, the savage has never used it. By bypassing thought and scoffing at technology and knowledge, India fell into a state of savagery rather than liberation, which ultimately made the nation vulnerable to centuries of slavery and external conquest.