Acharya Prashant explains that in the Ashtavakra Gita, the emphasis of the phrase 'I am awareness alone' is on the word 'alone' rather than 'awareness'. He clarifies that human identities are typically partial and come in clusters; when one assumes a single identity, such as being a father, a multitude of other related identities and roles follow automatically. These worldly identities are never solitary but act like a net that entangles an individual in a complex web of cause and effect. To say one is 'awareness alone' is a radical act of negation and rejection of all these cluttered, partial identities that suffocate the true nature of the self.