Acharya Prashant explains that freedom from happiness and sadness does not mean prohibiting these experiences, but rather being free from the obligation to label them as something more than what they are. Spirituality involves knowing happiness as just happiness and sadness as just sadness, without treating them as proxies for joy or contentment. When one stops attaching significant notions to these states, one can allow them unrestricted entry and celebrate all change from an unshakeable center. He emphasizes that the boldness to not restrict these experiences is the truth. He further discusses the concept of celebrating sadness, noting that if one allows sadness to go deeply, it inevitably touches joy. He describes the unparalleled joy of laughing at one's own miseries and destruction, which he identifies as egolessness. True spirituality is characterized by the ability to smile even while being annihilated or reduced. While both happiness and sadness are welcome, he suggests that sadness can be more elevating and purifying as it teaches more and facilitates the celebration of one's own disappearance.