Acharya Prashant responds to a question about identifying an enlightened person through their external behavior, such as constant peacefulness or joy. He asserts that it ultimately depends, and only the person in question can truly know their state. He uses the analogy of an actor, explaining that one can pay an actor to perfectly enact all these roles and display tremendous resilience, angerlessness, patience, and virtue. Such an actor might appear more peaceful than peace itself or more meditative than a Buddha, but this performance does not equate to liberation. The speaker clarifies that as long as there is someone within asking the question, "Am I liberated?", the chances are that one is not. True liberation, he explains, is to be free from this very question and from the questioner itself—the entity that clamors for liberation. The question "Am I liberated?" is similar to asking "Am I not?" because if the questioner were not there, the question would not arise. He states that the declaration "I am liberated" is the same as saying "I am not," which implies the non-existence of the 'I'. If one does not exist, there is no one to claim liberation. He illustrates this with an analogy of a guest who has not arrived; such a guest would neither say "I have arrived" nor "I have not arrived." They are simply not there. Similarly, the truly liberated state is one where the individual is not even present to declare whether they are or are not.