In this process of understanding the real "I", Akbar realized that the first step needed is to liberate ourselves from our current masters.

These masters are a family called selfishness ("I-ness", if you will) made up of a mother and her five children. The name of the mother is Desire. When we intensely desire something and don't get it, two children are born: Anger and Jealously. But if we get what we crave, a third child arrives: Attachment. As our attachment grows stronger, another one is born: Greed for more of the same. As our greed is satiated, the fifth child takes birth: Conceit. These six masters rule our lives, and we become selfish. As selfish smells bad, clever minds have coined words to camouflage it: self-centered-individualism or enlightened self-interest, in essence, plain selfishness!