Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how spirituality can help in the optimal allocation of resources for success. He begins with an analogy: if a person is drunk and has to allocate resources to ten priorities, they will likely give the lion's share to the liquor vendor. This illustrates that in any act, the actor comes first; in any allocation, the allocator comes first. The state of the allocator determines how resources are distributed. Spirituality is about purifying the actor, the allocator. If one is alright, they will know their priorities and their relative importance. This clarity comes from knowing the one thing of prime importance. Once you know that one thing, you will see everything else in its context. Spirituality is about knowing your central priority, which is freedom. When you realize that freedom is your prime concern and that you are currently not free but in bondage, you will know where to allocate your resources—your time, energy, money, and life. You will want to procure the axe to cut the bonds, to sharpen the blade. This is the correct way to allocate resources. Expanding on the nature of desire, Acharya Prashant explains that it stems from an inner hollowness or incompleteness, which is the ego. The ego is like an unstable free radical, always needing to bond with something, to have company, and to attach itself to something. This is desire—the belief that an object in the world will bring fulfillment. He distinguishes between two kinds of desire. The first, and most common, is a foolish, self-defeating desire for objects that only perpetuate one's incompleteness. The second kind of desire is the wise desire to unravel the desiring entity itself, to demolish the desirer. In this demolition lies the true fulfillment. In essence, the ultimate desire is for the end of desire, which means the end of the desiring self. Therefore, one must be very wise in choosing their desires, learning to say "no" to the blind waves of desire that usually carry people away.