Acharya Prashant explains that the universe appears as it does only because of one's ignorance of their true self. He asserts that the ultimate truth is that you are the only one, and besides you, there is neither an individual soul nor a separate spirit. He compares our perception of the world to children who fall in love with characters on a cinema screen, failing to realize that the characters are not real and the actors playing them are also not what they seem. This deception exists at multiple levels because we often fall in love with a persona or a character without knowing the actual facts of the person, and even if we reach the level of facts, we fail to understand the ultimate truth of what a person or a 'living being' truly is.