Acharya Prashant explains that the desire for enlightenment or liberation (Moksha) arises only when one feels bound and is in a state of suffering. He asserts that anyone talking about attaining liberation has not yet found it, as their words are often based on imagination or hearsay. The only honest thing one can say about liberation is that it signifies freedom from one's current state of distress, tension, and mental burden. He references the Buddha's concept of Nirvana, which literally means the extinguishing of a flame, signifying the cessation of the fire of suffering. He emphasizes that liberation is not a mystical object to be acquired, but the end of the current state of burning.