Acharya Prashant responds to a question about whether one's profession, even if it's that of a butcher or a prostitute, hinders the path to liberation. He begins by explaining that one only moves towards freedom when one is trapped. Therefore, anyone who advances towards freedom must have been entangled somewhere before. A person who is already free does not need liberation. The real question is not whether a butcher or a prostitute can attain liberation, but whether, after the desire for liberation arises in the mind, a butcher can remain a butcher and a prostitute can remain a prostitute. Before this awakening, anyone can do anything, like a mad person whose actions are unpredictable. Once a person understands their bondage, their actions are bound to change. For a prostitute, if she realizes her bondage is trading her body to sustain it, she cannot continue the same trade the next day. Similarly, if a butcher realizes that he is killing countless beings daily just to feed his own stomach, he cannot continue that act. The crucial point is not what one did before awakening, but whether one can remain the same after it. He dismisses the notion that one can continue any kind of work and simply add some meditation to it for spiritual progress, stating that such ideas only benefit the gurus whose businesses thrive on them. When you change, your actions (karma) must also change. While it is possible to change actions externally without the doer changing internally, it is impossible for the doer to change internally and for the actions to remain the same. Acharya Prashant further elaborates on this by giving an example of a greedy person who used to go to his shop but now goes to the temple because he was told his greed would be fulfilled there. Here, the action has changed, but the doer remains the same greedy person. He then provides a spiritual definition of prostitution as using the body merely to sustain the body. The body is meant to elevate consciousness, not just for its own maintenance. By this definition, he suggests that 99% of people are engaged in this form of prostitution. He concludes by stating that people are immersed in entertainment, which acts as an anesthesia, preventing them from feeling their suffering. If this entertainment stops, the pain will break them, and only then will they run towards liberation.