In response to a question about whether two people from different schools of meditation can grow together, Acharya Prashant explains that the more they grow together, the more they can do so only by dropping their respective ideas. He states that what limits or arrests their growth are their ideas about meditation. If meditation is an intense and intimate love, it cannot be an idea, just as love itself cannot be fully verbalized or contained within concepts, despite poems and songs about it. To grow together, individuals must drop all their ideas, including their ideas about love and meditation. It is our ideas that separate us. The speaker illustrates this by explaining that when one person thinks they are a certain 'somebody' and another thinks they are a different 'somebody', these two identities are mutually irreconcilable, leading to differences and conflicts between individuals, communities, and even countries. This conflict arises because people hold onto their ideas. Any growth, whether it is alongside someone else or a solitary, internal process, includes growing beyond your ideas. This often happens by successively moving into better and higher ideas, and ultimately into the idea, which the Upanishads bless us with, that all ideas are just ideas. While moving up this 'intellectual stair' from a gross idea to a more subtle and refined one is progress, one will not get peace until all ideas are dropped. Acharya Prashant cites the teaching of Ashtavakra to Janak, stating that one can have a thousand 'Samadhis' (states of meditative absorption) but will not attain 'Mukti' (liberation) until one drops their knowledge. He notes the audacity of this teaching, as most spiritual paths stop at Samadhi. However, the ultimate teaching is that even a thousand successive Samadhis will provide nothing until one is able to drop their knowledge, which is their ideas. Dropping ideas practically happens by moving to incrementally more sublime ones until one is fearless enough to let go of all supports and 'fly free', as ideas are the supports that defend us against reality.