Acharya Prashant explains that as long as one's goal is not tremendously big, life has no real purpose. He states that if your goals are small, they are not truly goals. You will be frustrated if you don't achieve them, and you will be doubly frustrated if you do achieve them. Upon achieving a small goal, you will find that the next goal is waiting for you, which is a deep frustration, making you feel as if all your investment has gone down the drain. He advises giving yourself a goal that is the final one, after which no more goals will be needed. This is a goal after which the goal-setter himself would be no more. Such a goal can only be that of your total annihilation, to let yourself disappear and surrender to something so worthy that it deserves your total sacrifice. Unless your goal is that magnificent, worthy, and tremendous, you will just be frustrated. Normally, when you have goals, you go to the goal to gain something, to succeed. However, the mark of a real goal is that when you reach it, you won't be gaining anything; you will just be losing. You know that the movement to that goal is a movement in loss. The goal has to be so enchanting and alluring that you willingly move towards it, even knowing you are being looted and destroyed. The real goal dissolves you along the journey, and you know you are paying a price with every step you take. The test for a worthy goal is this: if you expect to gain something upon reaching your goal, then that goal is worthless. If you know that you are only losing as you proceed towards the goal, then that goal is worthy. If your goal gives you something, you should dump it. Real success, therefore, is your total failure in preserving yourself. Only a real goal can give you real success, whereas false goals will give you false failures and, worse still, false successes. You are in this world to burn yourself out, like a candle burning from both ends, turning matter into light. The purpose of life is sublimation: burn fast, turn into light, and disappear. Die empty.