Acharya Prashant explains that the mind is essentially a collection of limitations imposed by circumstances, conditioning, education, and experience. Therefore, the mind itself is synonymous with bondage. For the mind to move toward liberation, it must break its own patterns. True freedom does not mean doing what the mind desires; in fact, freedom lies in not following the mind's whims, as those whims are merely products of bondage. Following every internal impulse or external attraction is not freedom but a form of deep slavery where one is unaware of how situations and internal waves of desire control them.