Acharya Prashant explains that as long as you are associated with your thoughts, you are making a mistake, and your thoughts will be flawed. By associating yourself with your thoughts, you make them heavy and corrupt. This is why we are unable to truly think. Otherwise, thought itself is liberation. He clarifies that our thoughts usually entangle us further because we think while being "laden" upon the thought, which makes it heavy and corrupt. He advises stepping aside and letting the process of thinking happen on its own, as a mere process. This brings sharpness to thought, which then becomes insight. The speaker elaborates that we become participants or stakeholders in the thinking process when we use it for self-protection or to gain some personal benefit. Instead of thinking impartially about the situation, we think for our self-interest, which creates a wrong relationship between us and the world. He defines "free thought" as thought that is free from the obligation to serve the self. He distinguishes between "vichar" (thought) and "nirvichar" (thoughtlessness). "Vichar" exists when the thinker is egoistic. "Nirvichar" does not mean the absence of thinking, but a state where the thinker is egoless. When the thinker is egoless, thought itself is liberation. Since we usually think for ourselves, our thoughts are heavy, corrupt, and useless.