Acharya Prashant explains the difference between death and liberation by stating they are two very different things that happen to different entities. He uses an analogy of a person driving a car to a destination. If the driver is drunk and crashes the car, rendering it unable to move further, this is death. It is the death of the car, not the driver. The driver is left frustrated, but they haven't died. Death, in this context, is the death of the car (the body) and the death of the potential to reach the destination. Liberation, on the other hand, is when you reach your destination using the car. Upon arrival, the car, which was a tremendously important tool for the journey, no longer holds the same meaning and becomes unimportant. This is liberation. You are liberated from the attachment to the car and from the separation from the destination. You are also liberated from the need to move, from the vehicle, and even from the destination itself, because you have become the destination. Liberation belongs to you (the driver), while death belongs to the car (the body). The speaker further elaborates that the journey of life has two possible outcomes: death or liberation. Death without liberation is a defeat, where the entire sense of life has been lost. This implies that liberation is freedom from death, which is what the ancients called immortality. Death occurs only to those who have misused the opportunity of life. Those who live rightly do not die; they become immortal. The body will inevitably die, but the question is whether it dies before you have reached the destination. The purpose of life is liberation, and any other attainment or prosperity without it merely means death.