In response to a question about whether heightened sensory experiences can lead to liberation, Acharya Prashant explains that this is not possible. He uses the example of eating a lot of red hot chilies, which would be a heightened sensation, but questions how that would lead to the death of the experiencer, doer, or actor. He states that heightened sensation implies there is somebody to receive that sensation, and that somebody is the ego. The deeper the sensation and the higher the excitement, the more alert the ego becomes. It is not going to drop dead, because if it did, who would be left to experience anything? He calls the pursuit of heightened sensation a back-handed way to keep consuming pleasure without appearing irreligious or unspiritual. Man has devised tricks to consume and sensate with the professed objective of going beyond sensation, but this is not going to happen. Acharya Prashant explains this using the concept of 'vritti' (mental modification or tendency), which implies a circle or a closed system. It doesn't matter how much one runs along a circle or how many times one repeats sensory experiences; this repetition will never take you beyond them. He calls this concept wasteful, as it only gives pleasures and makes one feel righteous and clever, but it is a "rotten deal." He refutes the idea that binging and fasting are two ends of the same spectrum. He clarifies that it is the body's natural constitution that attracts it to food. Only man needs fasting, not animals, because man tries to fill his inner vacuum through food. For animals, food is merely nutrition and life-giving energy, which is why they do not get obese or starve in the wild, unless domesticated. Man overeats because he is trying to fulfill his inner vacuum. Fasting is an experiment to demonstrate that the lack of excess food does not worsen the inner crisis but can relieve inner tension. Similarly, the mind wants to accumulate excess wealth, thinking it can be an agent of inner welfare. However, when one donates, they realize that giving away wealth hasn't made them poorer in the internal sense; it has improved the inner climate. The realization that dawns is that it is not wealth, food, prestige, or knowledge that one is truly craving, but something else, something beyond. These practices are pointers towards the beyond.