Acharya Prashant explains that Gautam Buddha’s approach was fundamentally one of negation, where he asserted that what people commonly refer to as the self or soul is actually a product of imagination. By using the term 'Anatman', Gautam Buddha highlighted that any concept of the self that one can speak of or identify with is inherently false and unreliable. He focused on the observation that all identities and relationships associated with the 'I' are transient and prone to betrayal, leading to a state of constant suspicion and fear. Rather than providing new spiritual fantasies or palaces of dreams, Gautam Buddha aimed to show that a person's existing possessions and self-certified knowledge are the very things preventing them from living freely. Regarding the comparison between Buddhism and Vedanta, Acharya Prashant clarifies that the differences are primarily linguistic. What Vedanta refers to as 'Aham' or the ego, Gautam Buddha calls 'Anatman'. While Vedanta speaks of 'Atman', Gautam Buddha remains silent on the subject, and this silence corresponds to the Buddhist concept of 'Sunyata' or emptiness. He further explains that 'Ishvara' or God is a necessary counterpart only as long as an individual identifies as a 'Jiva' or a separate person. In both traditions, once the individual self is transcended, the need for a personal God vanishes. Additionally, the concept of 'Maya' or delusion exists in Buddhism under different names, as Gautam Buddha spoke extensively about everything that deludes the human mind.