In response to a question about balancing detachment and ambition, Acharya Prashant explains that one must be detached from nonsense and greatly ambitious towards that which truly matters. He clarifies that one cannot be detached from something without first realizing its uselessness and futility. Attempting detachment without this insight is merely internal suppression, which leads to a constant yearning for the renounced object, making one a "thief unto myself." Acharya Prashant states that detachment and right ambition are two names for the same deep insight and clear realization. When one realizes something is life-giving, one will pursue it at any cost, which is true ambition. He describes the spiritual mind as deeply ambitious, with its desire set on the real thing, the ultimate. In this sense, the saints were far more ambitious than modern CEOs, as they sought nothing less than the ultimate, considering worldly achievements too small a thing to pursue. This process requires insight to distinguish what is valuable and worthy in life from what is not. True renunciation, he explains, happens naturally when one clearly sees that a certain thing is toxic. At that moment, one cannot help but drop it, just as one would instinctively throw away a hot coal from one's hand. He concludes by stating that being ambitious and being surrendered are two sides of the same coin. To be ambitious is to realize true beauty in a way that it overpowers you, leading to a surrender to that one lovely, beautiful thing. Spirituality, he says, is the pursuit of that "one thing" which is beyond all things.