Acharya Prashant explains that the common understanding of freedom is flawed, as it usually refers to the freedom to act according to one's conditioning. He argues that choices, such as casting a vote, are often influenced by family, community, and society rather than being truly independent. What is typically called free will is actually the will of a slave fulfilling a master's wishes. Real free will is unpredictable and occurs only when the individual self is absent; it is the expression of a free existence through the person rather than the person's own will.