Acharya Prashant addresses the question, "What is the highest pleasure in life?" by first deconstructing the question itself. He points out that the questioner has separated "life" from "ultimate pleasure," assuming that life is already known and now the search is for pleasure within it. This very act of forgetting life and focusing only on pleasure is the fundamental error. The question is posed as if one knows life completely and now only needs to be told what the pleasure within it is. This, he says, is where the problem lies. He explains that life in its entirety is the ultimate pleasure. There is no need to dissect it, separating a portion as pleasure and another as sorrow, or to seek an "ultimate pleasure" within the category of pleasure. The moment one tries to know life, this question becomes meaningless. Anyone who seeks ultimate pleasure *in* life is breaking life into pieces, dividing it. Whenever you divide life, you have invited sorrow. We divide life by setting conditions, for example, by saying, "If such and such a result comes, then I am entitled to be happy, otherwise not." This is how we divide life by imposing conditions. Acharya Prashant further elaborates that there is no ultimate pleasure *in* life; life *is* the ultimate pleasure. What is continuously happening is that you have not experienced it properly, which is why life seems cheap to you. He suggests an experiment: if you stop breathing for two minutes, you will realize how great a pleasure it is just to breathe. You would say that there can be no greater pleasure than this. But you will only believe this after you first experience the suffering of not breathing. Similarly, if you close your eyes and imagine you are blind, you will realize what a great pleasure it is to be able to see. The things you have already received, you never express gratitude for them. That is why you are always in search of some pleasure beyond them. You have never been grateful for the fact that gravity is what it is, or that the atmospheric pressure is what it is. You live as if these things have no value. Life itself is pleasure.