Acharya Prashant addresses a question about how spirituality can help in the optimal allocation of resources. He begins with an analogy: if a drunk person has to allocate resources to ten of their priorities, they will likely give the lion's share to the liquor vendor. This illustrates that in any act, the actor comes first; in allocation, the allocator comes first. Spirituality is about purifying the actor, the allocator. If the allocator is alright, they will know their priorities and their relative importance. This is because they will know the one thing that is of prime importance: Truth or Freedom. Knowing this one thing allows one to see everything else in its context. This knowledge enables the optimal allocation of all resources, including time, energy, money, and life itself. Expanding on this, Acharya Prashant explains that spirituality is about knowing your central priority, which is Freedom. Your central priority is freedom, and you must know that you are currently not free but in bondage in many inner and outer ways. When you know this, you will want to give your time, energy, money, and life—your resources—to procuring the axe to cut your bonds. You will want to sharpen the blade, and that is what you will pay for. This is how you will know how to allocate your resources. It's not about what you do, but who does it. This is self-knowledge. He further elaborates on the nature of desire, stating it comes from an inner hollowness, an incompleteness, which is classically called the ego. The ego is like a free radical, unstable and always requiring something to bond with, which is desire. He describes two kinds of desire. The first, foolish desire, is when an incomplete entity desires an object that will keep it incomplete, thus extending the incompleteness. This is self-defeating. The second kind of desire is one that desires to unravel and demolish the desiring entity itself. In the demolition of the desiring entity lies the fulfillment of the desirous one. We all desire our psychological end. Therefore, one must be very discreet and wise when choosing desires, learning to say 'no' to most of them and giving all energy and resources to the one desire that is truly worthwhile.