Acharya Prashant explains the state of the liberated one by commenting on shloks from the Ashtavakra Gita. He begins by stating that the language used in the scripture is one of negation and symbolism, designed to guide one to a point beyond negation itself. For the liberated individual, the ocean of the world (samsara) has dried up, meaning there is neither attachment nor aversion. These feelings arise from the conditioned mind, but the realized one resides in a state untouched by them. By negating attachment and aversion, the scripture points toward the true state of the liberated one, who lives at a point beyond the reach of these dualities. The speaker elaborates on the verse, "His gaze is vacant, his behaviour purposeless, and his senses inactive." He contrasts this with an ordinary person's gaze, which is filled with the ego acting as the subject viewing the world as an object. The realized one's gaze is vacant because the ego is no longer the seer; he does not look through the filters of narrow subjectivity or past conditioning. Similarly, his behavior is purposeless because he feels no sense of incompletion that drives others to have goals. For him, there is nothing to be gained or lost, as everything is already complete and full. His senses are described as inactive because they are not driven by desire. While an ordinary person's senses are active due to the mind's engagement, the realized one's senses are inactive because he perceives the One in all diversity, rendering distinctions and differences insignificant. Further explaining the inactive senses, Acharya Prashant notes that our senses function based on distinction and limitation. For instance, the ears detect sound only because there are distinct words and silences. The senses of the realized one are inactive because these distinctions have ceased for him. He sees the One shining in everything, and the presence of this One is so overwhelming that all differences become insignificant. He uses the analogy of being so completely in love with someone that you do not notice the petty details of their appearance; the love itself is all-encompassing. Finally, he addresses the phrase, "He is neither awake nor asleep, and neither opens nor closes his eyes." He explains that the waking state (jagriti), dreaming state (swapna), and deep sleep state (sushupti) are all transient states of the mind. The yogi is not attached to any of these and lives in a fourth, transcendent state (Turiya). Therefore, whether his eyes are open or closed is insignificant, as he is not operating from the limited perspective of the physical senses. With open eyes, he sees the beloved; with closed eyes, he also sees the beloved. The state of the eyes does not matter because he is not confined by them.