Acharya Prashant explains that the mind's attempt to control or suppress itself is a futile exercise, akin to a dog chasing its own tail or trying to clean a wall with coal. He emphasizes that the one making the effort is the mind itself, which uses the desire for liberation or dissolution as a mask to ensure its own survival. Even when the mind claims it wants to surrender or become empty, it is merely adopting a new identity to remain in existence. Whether one is a worldly person seeking material gain or a seeker striving for spiritual goals, both are caught in the same trap of mental effort and ego-preservation. The wise person is defined by a state of complete non-resistance and the cessation of all striving. Such an individual is free from both worldly attachment and the craving for liberation, becoming extraordinarily ordinary. Acharya Prashant uses the metaphor of a dead leaf blown by the wind of causality to describe this state. Unlike the ego, which wants to control its own destiny, the liberated person flows effortlessly with the movements of existence. This state of being is spontaneous and perennial, requiring a fearless mind that has abandoned the sense of doership and trusts entirely in the oneness of existence.