Acharya Prashant explains that the process of liberation from doership is the very process of living itself. He defines what is usually called living or life as an incessant, continuous flow of desire. In the usual sense, life and desire are inseparable; a central characteristic of a dead person is that they can no longer desire. Therefore, if you are alive, you are desiring. The process of liberation, then, is to see what happens with the desire. One invests time, energy, money, and emotions into a desire, and it is common sense to want to know what happens to that investment. The process of living, which is the process of desire, when observed, becomes the process of liberation. To observe your desire is to be liberated from the desire. Acharya Prashant elaborates that this applies even to the desire for spiritual experiences or ideas about the spiritual process. There is no thought free of desire, and no excursion into spirituality is without an image or a desire. Nobody desires an object itself; what is desired is the experience that the object is imagined to provide. The fundamental desire is for inner fulfillment. Language is at fault when we say we desire a particular object, as the object is merely a medium. All that we desire is our own fulfillment through that object. If we were to acknowledge that the real thing we want is within, we would have to turn inwards. However, we do not want to acknowledge this, and we teach our children that objects are important, when they are not. The reason to drop the pursuit of objects is not because it is evil or unholy, but because it is ineffective and an inefficient investment of life's resources. Running after an object is an inefficient investment of life energy, time, and resources because it does not provide the desired fulfillment. Spirituality, therefore, is 'life economics'—understanding what to do with the limited number of heartbeats one has. In a discussion about Nisargadatta Maharaj, Acharya Prashant notes his direct and uncompromising style, stating that Maharaj taught that consciousness itself is the first trap and that you will never find fulfillment in consciousness. He concludes with the poetic statement, "The immediate is the ultimate."