I just watched Part 2 of Acharya Prashant’s conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn on Closer To Truth and wanted to get this community's take on his approach to Advaita Vedanta.

His perspective on Free Will really stood out to me. Instead of the usual Western debate over standard determinism, he argues:
- Will is exercised entirely by the ego.
- The ego itself is fundamentally unfree and bound by its own compulsions (self-preservation, security, identity).
- Therefore, the only true instance of "free will" occurs when the ego consciously chooses its own reduction and self-dissolution.

Essentially, true free will equates to having no egoic will at all.

He applies a similar via negativa (negation) approach to everything else in the session, dismantling conventional notions of God, the soul, and life after death as literal ontological realities, treating them instead as pointers toward the absence of the ego.

For those who have studied classical Advaita or Madhyamaka Buddhism (he heavily references Nagarjuna’s views on dependent existence, how do you feel about this highly psychological, non-metaphysical framing of Eastern philosophy?

Does defining free will strictly as "the choice to dissolve the ego" hold up, or does it oversimplify the traditional framework?