Acharya Prashant explains that the relationship between the ego and liberation is one of deep contradiction. The ego is the only entity that both desperately wants liberation and simultaneously resists it. This resistance occurs because liberation signifies the end of the seeker and the dissolution of the ego's identity. He notes that people often clamor for freedom, yet when it presents itself, they turn away because they are identified with the act of wanting and seeking. True freedom is not an experience of bliss or pleasure that can be conceptualized; rather, it is the cessation of all attempts toward liberation and the demise of what one thinks oneself to be.