Acharya Prashant explains that the conventional idea of God as the beloved and the ego as the lover is a popular but misleading concept. He argues that identifying as a lover, seeker, or aspirant is a subtle trick of the ego to maintain its own existence. By claiming to be on a journey toward truth or liberation, the ego establishes a premise of separation and incompletion. This distance ensures that the ego remains preserved as the one who is 'trying' to reach a goal, thereby preventing the very union it claims to seek. In the dimension of truth, one is either already there or not there at all; it is impossible to 'reach' it through effort because the starting point of effort is the center of separation.