Acharya Prashant explains that understanding what truth is is less important than recognizing what we falsely assume to be the truth. He points out that we often take our own existence and various worldly objects as truth, but according to the scriptures, anything that appears and disappears, breaks trust, has an opposite, or can be thought about cannot be the truth. Truth is characterized by eternal joy and is not prone to disappearance. When we burden transient things, like relationships, with the expectation of being eternal truths, we inevitably suffer because their nature is to change and die. Freedom comes from releasing these false expectations and seeing the ephemeral for what it is.
