Acharya Prashant explains that the pursuit of liberation by the ego is itself a form of bondage. He argues that the ego's concept of liberation is merely an extension of its own ignorance and desire for self-preservation. True liberation does not come from imagining or experiencing something new, but from self-observation and understanding the nature of one's own bondage. He emphasizes that the ego is often a specialist in talking about liberation while remaining completely naive about its own identity. Therefore, the role of a true teacher is not to entertain the ego with spiritual gimmicks or fancy stories, but to bring the student down to earth to see who they truly are. The discourse further clarifies that truth is freedom from the urge of the experiencer to gather novel experiences. Acharya Prashant distinguishes between the feelings of a spiritually evolved person and an immature one, noting that spiritual evolution is characterized by the distance one maintains from their feelings, regardless of their quality. Even if thoughts and feelings are beautiful or evolved, the spiritually mature individual does not identify with them. He defines free thinking not as thinking in many directions, but as thought that is free from the personal center or the 'I'. High-quality thought and feeling are those that do not have personal interests at their center.