Acharya Prashant explains Ashtavakra's teaching that one must renounce desire, wealth, and the kind of religion that serves them. He clarifies that desire is an enemy and wealth is its gross manifestation; both arise from a false sense of incompleteness. He criticizes the common misconception of 'Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha' as a sequential journey, asserting that true liberation is not a future achievement but the immediate renunciation of these pursuits. He warns that most people use religion merely as a tool to fulfill worldly desires, turning spirituality into a marketplace. This exploitation of religion is not a modern corruption but a fundamental tendency of the human mind to use any resource, including scriptures, to serve its own ego. True religion, according to Acharya Prashant, is synonymous with 'appropriateness'—that which leads the mind back to its center or the Self. He explains that the feeling of lack is an illusion because the Self is eternally complete. Seeking to fulfill a non-existent lack only reinforces the illusion of its existence. Therefore, religion should not promise the fulfillment of desires but should lead to their dissolution. He emphasizes that liberation is simple and ever-present, but the mind's complexity overlooks this simplicity in favor of difficult paths and rituals. Moksha is not about attaining something new; it is the freedom from what we have accumulated and the realization of what is already present.