Acharya Prashant explains that while the law of karma operates as a cause-and-effect chain in the material world, the true self remains free from it. He uses the analogy of a ball moving up and down to illustrate that while material things follow conceptualized laws, the individual is not material and should not be bound by these movements. Even if the body experiences pain as a result of past physical exertion, one must maintain inner health and not identify with the sickness. He emphasizes that one should be neither the doer of actions nor the experiencer of their consequences, remaining relaxed and free in the middle of all results.