Questioner 1: There's one thing that I feel that should be discussed is the true purpose of life. We all talk about it a lot. We all hear it a lot. But what do you think is the true purpose of life, and how does someone who is 20 years old discover his own true purpose? Like, what is the way for them to discover their true purpose? And for that, I have a quote too, from Victor Frankel.
He used to say, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life, he can only respond by being responsible."
So, can you please expand on one of his quotes and how to find the true purpose of life for a youngster?
Acharya Prashant: You see, you cannot ask for something called the true purpose while being simultaneously and stubbornly invested in all kinds of blind purposes. Maybe the true purpose of life is just to get rid of all the false purposes. Maybe that's what you were born for. Maybe the moment you were born, you were already handed over a lot of false purposes.
Plus, the potential to accumulate even more false purposes. That's what your condition was the moment you were born. When you are an infant, are you purposeless? Ever seen an infant? Is the infant purposeless? Even as a very little baby, you still have a purpose or many purposes.
