Acharya Prashant explains that when Ashtavakra speaks of a man whose days in the world are over, it signifies the end of worldliness rather than physical death or departure. He describes the world as an expression of the truth that reveals itself differently to individuals based on their own beliefs, fantasies, assumptions, and ego. Citing the Bhagavad Gita, he notes that reality appears to a person exactly as they conceive of it; thus, as the subject or the mind changes and becomes lighter, the world also changes and eventually dissolves. This dissolution is not a disappearance into non-existence but a process where the world, which is essentially a bundle of meanings and significances, ceases to hold its previous weight. Acharya Prashant reassures that there is no reason to fear this state, as nothing is lost; the individual is not plucked out of the world but rather experiences a shift where the world opens up in an altogether different way once the egoistic subject dissolves.