Acharya Prashant explains that the root of all human desires, illnesses, and restlessness is a deep-seated sense of incompleteness. He emphasizes that one must reach this root, which he identifies as the ego. Reaching the root of the ego is sufficient because the journey beyond it happens spontaneously, much like how a ball thrown upwards must eventually fall back down due to gravity. He clarifies that there are not two separate centers—a true one and a false one—but rather one reality that appears as two. The true center is the power that allows one to investigate the false center. Once the false center is fully understood and entered, the true center, or the Self, is realized automatically.