Acharya Prashant explains that the mind is not a random collection of thoughts but a purposeful design centered on the welfare of the 'I'. He clarifies that even seemingly unrelated thoughts are connected to one's perceived well-being through a chain of associations. The mind recognizes its own inherent sickness and attempts to address it through thinking, yet it often remains trapped in a cycle of unending mental activity because it is attached to its own problems and suffering. This fragmentation, where the ego exists to seek its own dissolution but continues to exist to maintain that desire, is described as a form of internal split or schizophrenia. To resolve this, Acharya Prashant suggests two complementary approaches: going to the root of the thought or going to its fruit. Going to the root involves tracing thoughts back to their origin, which is always a sense of incompleteness or a specific identity. Going to the fruit involves honestly questioning what a thought ultimately aims to achieve. He asserts that the final goal of all thinking is freedom from thinking itself and a state of rest. By honestly pursuing the ultimate 'fruit' of any thought, one realizes that the peace being sought is available immediately, rendering the continuous spectacle of mental activity unnecessary.