Acharya Prashant explains that the primary objective of the Upanishads is to negate the importance given to external methods of worship. He points out that people often focus on external symbols, such as offering unbroken rice grains, without understanding that the true meaning of 'unbroken' refers to an internal state of continuous witness-consciousness. The Upanishads aim to shift the center of attention from the external world to the internal self. He argues that playing with external materials like water, seats, and lamps while ignoring the internal state is futile and will yield no spiritual benefit. Worship is essentially an internal phenomenon, and the Upanishads use external symbols only to point toward one's inner condition.