Acharya Prashant explains that experience is not an objective reality but is entirely dependent on the individual's state of mind. He points out that if multiple people witness the same event, they will all describe it differently because the experiencer determines the nature of the experience. An ignorant person may ignore a profound talk, making it a non-experience for them, while others may find it momentous. This demonstrates that one only gathers what they already are, and experience is often just a reflection of one's existing self-concept and mental state. He further argues that experience itself cannot take a person forward because it is limited by the past and the ego. Instead, it is openness that is truly valuable. A young person with zero experience can be more open and receptive than an older person with decades of experience who remains closed. If one depends too much on previous experiences, they live in a closed circuit, merely confirming or denying their existing ego. Openness does not come from experience; in fact, being overly reliant on experience can prevent true openness. Acharya Prashant concludes that to have a total experience of everything happening in the present, one must not be in any particular mental state. When the mind is fixed in a specific state, it only catches specific, limited experiences. To be open to the 'complete happening'—where everything from a tree to the sky is part of the experience—one must be 'nobody' and have no particular mental state. In this state of total openness, experience comes not as a fragmented thought, but as a holistic realization of the entire moment.