Acharya Prashant explains that desireless action, or Nishkam Karma, is not about having no desires, but about having the right desire—a higher desire. He addresses the common argument that spirituality is only for those who have already achieved worldly success, calling it a traditional and clichéd argument against all spirituality. This argument suggests that one should first pursue worldly ambitions and only then turn to spirituality, citing examples like Buddha and Mahavir who renounced their kingdoms. The speaker refutes this notion, stating that this perspective misunderstands desirelessness. He clarifies that Nishkam Karma is the act of seeing the futility in what one is already pursuing, a realization that is relevant to everyone, regardless of their wealth or achievements. He argues that people often fail to meet even their basic needs not from a lack of desire, but from having misplaced desires. Everyone has desires; a person with few possessions does not necessarily have fewer desires than a so-called achiever. The solution, he posits, is to cultivate the right desire. This right desire is not for petty physical instincts or social validation, but for the ultimate goal of absolute freedom—liberation from all mental, physical, social, and ideological bondages. The pursuit of this supreme desire is what constitutes true desirelessness. He dismisses the idea that a hungry person should not desire bread as a straw man fallacy used to misrepresent the concept. Acharya Prashant concludes that helplessness and a sense of being choiceless arise from misplaced desires and a wrong kind of self-interest. As human beings endowed with discretion, our desires should be secondary to our understanding. Desirelessness is achieved not when one has no desire, but when desire is not the master of one's life. The one who preaches Nishkam Karma, like Shri Krishna, is in the thick of action, advising a path of right action guided by discretion, not escapism.