Acharya Prashant explains that spirituality can be understood as the art of absolute hedonism. He contrasts the common man, who satisfies himself with bits and pieces of happiness and pleasure, with the spiritual seeker or monk. The spiritual seeker is not content with small measures and says, "nothing doing." Instead, the seeker wants absolute happiness. The speaker characterizes the spiritual seeker as ambitious and "very, very greedy." It is because of this immense greed that the spiritual person advises shunning normal, incomplete greed. The speaker clarifies that the spiritual seeker is not against greed itself, but against anything that is incomplete. Therefore, if one is to be greedy, one must be absolutely greedy. Spirituality is described as absolute greed, a state of wanting nothing small, only the infinite ultimate. This is a different dimension of greed. This principle is also applied to happiness and pleasure. While a common person might ask for a little happiness for an hour a day, the spiritual one desires "total, unending, undiminishing, eternal happiness." This ultimate happiness is not sought in another world or after death, but on this earth and right now. The speaker posits that if joy is absolute, it would be so alluring that one would not be able to postpone it. Spirituality, therefore, is the pursuit of the highest happiness, to be had right now and right here.