Acharya Prashant responds to a question about feeling worthless and having an egoistic tendency when trying to do something good, like promoting veganism to gain respect from parents. He explains that one should serve the Truth precisely because one is a worthless person, as that is the only way to become worthy. One becomes worthy by committing to the right thing. The speaker defines worth or value in the context of the evaluator. A thing holds value when it can raise one's consciousness. The elevation of consciousness is the only real value addition; all else is just accessories. Only the pursuit of Truth can elevate one's consciousness. Chasing the Truth is not like a treasure hunt; it means identifying the false and having the courage to drop it. The speaker clarifies that the Truth is not hidden somewhere. Vedanta proceeds through 'Neti Neti' (negation), so chasing the Truth means not chasing the false. This involves identifying what is false and deceptive in one's life and, like a man, dropping it. The definition of falseness is that which is not what it appears to be. This falseness does not lie in the object but in the desire-driven perceiver. For example, if one is fond of space travel, even a pen might appear as a rocket launcher. The fault is not with the pen but with the desire that skews and distorts the vision. Anything one sees is not what one takes it to be. Things are not to be blamed. When we say, "chase the Truth," we mean, "identify the false and drop it." What is to be dropped is the one within that cannot see the reality of things. We are our own enemies, creating castles out of thin air and cursing the world when they collapse. We are fond of our imagined castles. If one cannot have what one wants, one imagines it, which is dishonesty. For instance, wanting a divine fairy and then declaring the girl next door to be that fairy. The girl might be a nice human being, but she is not the fairy of one's dreams. However, if one can drop the fairy obsession, one might get a decent friend in her. Dropping the false is not about breaking up with people but about dropping the desire-driven perceiver. Things are just things, and people are just people; they are not the meanings we assign to them. These meanings arise from our own desirous state. When desires are not fulfilled, we blame the objects, but the objects never promised to be what we wanted them to be. One must know things for what they really are, and then one will be unable to hate, despise, or be attached. This is the right state of living.