Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why it is difficult to go against oneself and why one gets overpowered by pleasures when trying to move in the right direction. He states that the solution is love, as only love can trump pleasure. The joy of love is powerful enough to overcome all kinds of material and mental pleasures, and only love can accomplish this. He explains that when you go against yourself and face physical and mental hardships, it is logical to stop punishing yourself and ask, "Why can't I live a normal life? Why do I need to deliberately punish myself so much?" Without love, you will have no answer to these questions. From the perspective of the ego, spirituality is insanity. Only love can inspire the kind of madness required for realization. Pleasures are an intoxicant, and to overcome them, a bigger intoxicant is needed. Since pleasures make you mad, you need a bigger madness, which is love, to defeat them. Without love, there is no logical reason to make oneself suffer in pursuit of liberation, as liberation is not a tangible thing or a specific goal. The logical mind will ask, "For what?" and find no answer. Only love can make you obstinate enough to persist without a logical explanation. You cannot convince yourself to fall in love or to seek freedom; love for freedom is either self-evident or impossible to explain logically. It is an uncaused love that simply is. To allow love a chance, one must break away from the routine life, which is often structured to forbid love. The inner and the outer are connected; to change the inner, one must also change the outer environment, company, and experiences. Ensuring that your experiences do not change is ensuring that the experiencer never changes. If you don't change your experiences, you will continue to suffer.