Acharya Prashant explains that human beings live for the sake of contentment and are desperately looking for it. When contentment is not found in one place, we move to the next, and this continuous movement has created the infinite universe. The universe is infinite because our thirst is infinite. If the universe were finite, with a limited number of objects, we would exhaust all options and be left with our dissatisfaction, unable to survive psychically. We require an infinite number of objects to console ourselves with the false hope that there is always something else left to be tried. For this false hope to survive, we must project an infinitely large and false universe. The speaker states that the more our inner dissatisfaction grows, the more important diverse objects become in our lives. Conversely, the more the prevalence, production, and consumption of objects grow, the more dissatisfaction in our lives will grow. He links the exponential rise in humanity's ability to produce and consume objects over the last hundred years to the pandemic of neurosis and mental illness. The more we are able to produce and consume, the more terribly dissatisfied we grow within. If a person could one day exploit the entire universe, that would be their last day, as the falseness of their hope-based existence would be brutally and undeniably revealed. He notes that if our bodies were to accurately reflect the state of our minds, they would appear cut, wounded, bruised, and fractured. The mind is in deep trauma, yet the body can look healthy and the skin can be glowing. This discrepancy keeps us in the illusion that things are almost alright.