Questioner: Whenever I succeed in achieving something, I immediately start looking for something else, and when I succeed in finding that something else, again I find myself in the same situation. What am I really looking for?
Acharya Prashant: That which you commonly look for and that which you achieve has a limited purpose. Its purpose is to give you a glimpse of what you are really looking for. A glimpse is useful but cannot be a substitute for the real thing.
So, there is one target that you set, you achieve it, and the reward is a glimpse. The glimpse must impel you towards more of something. The glimpse is a fleeting sensation, a momentary revelation, a passing flash of right, and it is one's reward for the pains, the planning, the execution. And the glimpse says, “Now surpass me”; the glimpse says, “If this much is this good, how good would be one step further?” That is what it says.
Questioner: Where does it stop?
Acharya Prashant: It stops when the glimpse becomes life itself.
Questioner: How far?
