Acharya Prashant explains that liberation (Mukti) is freedom from internal compulsions. He states that the goal of life can be described as liberation or freedom, which presupposes a state of bondage. This freedom is not from a future birth, but from the bondages and troubles experienced in this very life, right here and now. He clarifies that it is not the next birth that troubles a person, but the bondages experienced in the present moment. The compulsion is to entertain troubles, not to drop them, and to feel helpless in the matter of these troubles. Liberation is freedom from this state. He further elaborates that liberation is freedom from illusion or ignorance. We do not know who we are, and therefore we feel obligated to keep suffering. When one puts on a fake identity, one must do everything that identity demands, but none of these identities are real. Consequently, the compulsions attached to these identities are not obligatory. The one who experiences bondage is herself the bondage; there is no objective bondage. The experiencer of bondage is herself in illusion. Regarding desire, Acharya Prashant explains that the issue is not being desireless but having a sane desire. An unfulfilled person cannot help but have desires. The question should be about the nature of life *with* desires. When one sees that life with desires is full of suffering, then any alternative becomes acceptable. A state of desirefulness is a state of ignorance. Because we don't know who we are, we desire the wrong things. Our desires never fulfill us, which means they are for someone else. To navigate this, one must acknowledge their pain and suffering. Our nature is joy, and we are not born to live in pain. The moment you acknowledge pain, you will find yourself dropping it. This is the power of choice. You can drop your pain because it is not compulsory; it's a choice you have inflicted upon yourself. Wisdom is not about being desireless in the first go, but about having an intense desire for the right thing and being a slave to that right desire.