Acharya Prashant addresses the question of whether there is a point of no return in life, a point from which one cannot recover. He affirms that such a point exists and it is a very dangerous matter. He explains that those who are truly alive do not worry about the future, whereas those who are like corpses are deeply troubled by the thought of dying. He draws a parallel to how we reveal our filth only to those who are our own and very close to us. Citing Shri Krishna, he states that when you are living so far below your highest potential, you are not truly living. He declares that such a person is not living at all. From the womb, a possibility is born. If you completely strangle that possibility, you are just walking around as a deception, an illusion. You breathe, eat, and talk, so it seems like you are a living being, but you are not. You are dead. We can still call an animal a living being, but we won't even call a person living in ignorance and darkness a living being. To call them an animal would be an honor; they are not even worthy of being called an animal. They are simply dead. If you keep falling in life, a point comes after which you cannot get up. This is the point of no return. Acharya Prashant likens this to a doctor who decides to remove a patient from a ventilator. Although the patient is technically alive, the doctor knows the chance of survival is negligible, perhaps one in a crore. Similarly, if the point of no return did not exist, Shri Krishna would not have instructed to kill; he would have said there is still a possibility for Duryodhana to reform. But a point comes when the possibility of reform becomes so minimal that it should be considered zero. This is a very serious matter. You should not fall so much that even a Krishna cannot save you. Shri Krishna has to declare that these people are not in darkness; they simply do not exist. They are walking corpses, and there should be no hesitation in felling them. For a human, the meaning of life is not the same as for a lion or a deer. For them, life is nature. For a human, life means consciousness. The measure of the height of consciousness is the distance from animalism. The more conscious you are, the more alive you are considered. The one who is truly alive is self-contained, and the Self has no future. The one who is truly 'is' has no fear of what will happen. And those who are not, are very worried about what will happen if they die. The one who is truly alive is indifferent to the future because they have no expectations from it. The sign of the dead is that you will find them talking about the future. They will have so many plans. An awakened person, when asked about their future, will fall silent.