Acharya Prashant explains meditation by contrasting it with ordinary thought. He describes thought as a relationship between the self and an object, driven by fear or greed. In contrast, meditation is the state where one desires only the highest truth and is no longer satisfied with the small or the superficial. He uses the analogy of a balloon to illustrate that while the mind has a limited capacity, meditation is the process of attempting to hold the infinite until the mind, or the 'thinker', bursts and disappears. This disappearance occurs because the individual aims for the unknowable, causing their faculties to become increasingly subtle until they vanish. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that meditation is not a practice of methods for the easily satisfied, but rather a pursuit for those with a taste for the mystical and the daring. It requires a level of eccentricity or 'madness' by worldly standards, as it involves looking beyond standard definitions and labels provided by society. He asserts that there is no single method for meditation because it is simply the honest way of looking at the universe and oneself. It is a commitment to the truth where one refuses to accept half-truths or stories, even at the risk of personal dissolution or 'death' of the ego.