Acharya Prashant explains that the way the law of karma has been co-opted and deliberately misinterpreted is spectacular. He states that the popular understanding of karma—as getting good results for good deeds and bad results for bad deeds, or as a karmic account of debits and credits—is a complete misinterpretation. The law of karma is not about these things at all; it is not about doing well in your tasks or being immersed in them. The speaker clarifies that the law of karma is actually the law of the 'Karta,' which means the doer or the actor. It is not the law of the deed or action, but the law of the one performing the action. He points out that scriptures like the Vedanta, Upanishads, and Gita are concerned with addressing this fundamental problem: the actor itself. The core principle, or law, is that the actor and the action are inseparable. This means one cannot continue to be who they are and still hope to do something good in life. Consequently, the true implication of the law of karma is to forget about the action (karma) and focus entirely on the doer (Karta). Since the doer and the action are inseparable, the doer determines the action. Therefore, there is no point in trying to correct the action when the actor itself is flawed and determined to remain so. The focus must be on who you are. If you are right, whatever you do will be right. Conversely, if you are stubbornly wrong, whatever you do will be wrong, regardless of societal approval. The right state of the actor is defined as a state with an intention towards self-dissolution. The actor is its own problem, its own disease, the ego itself. Therefore, a right actor must have an intention for their own disappearance or reduction. The right action, then, is an action performed with the intention to reduce oneself, not to aggrandize or fatten the ego. The litmus test is to examine your intention: if you want to become more of what you already are, it is a wrong action. If you want to get rid of what you are, that is the right action. This concept is what Shri Krishna refers to as 'Nishkam Karma' (desireless action). It means not doing anything for yourself or according to your desires, because actions driven by desire have the sole objective of preserving, securing, and fattening the self. The correct approach is to reject all desires in which you have a personal stake. One must take care of where they are coming from, and the rest can be left to Krishna. The essence is to continuously negate one's own self and desires.