Acharya Prashant addresses the necessity of letting go of the ego by first questioning the identity of the one asking the question. He explains that a person is not a single entity but consists of two opposing forces: the ego and intelligence or the self. Using the analogy of a leaf covered in dust, he describes how rain is life for the leaf but death for the dust. Similarly, the ego will never agree to its own dissolution because it views anything that threatens it as an enemy. He emphasizes that the interests of the ego are fundamentally different from the interests of the individual; while the ego seeks to keep one a slave, intelligence demands freedom. He concludes that because these two forces are always at war within a person, one must carefully decide which side to support, as an individual can be their own best friend or their own worst enemy depending on whether they identify with their ego or their intelligence.