Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the difficulty of setting and maintaining a high purpose in life, especially when one feels a lack of capability, courage, and awareness. He explains that the concept of a 'high purpose' is often misunderstood. The truly high is ineffable and beyond human grasp, words, or imagination. Therefore, the spiritual endeavor is not about trying to attain some lofty, conceptualized goal. Instead, when he advises keeping a high purpose, the real intention is to meticulously observe and confront what is 'low' in one's life. The practical path, he clarifies, is to identify and let go of all that is inferior, discardable, and base within oneself—aspects of which everyone is inherently aware. The high work is nothing but the act of relinquishing the low. This is a continuous process of struggling against and erasing the lower self, and victory lies in this very erasure. He emphasizes that this is not about winning in a conventional sense, but about being erased. The meaning of erasing oneself is to eliminate what is low within, as we ourselves are that which is low. Using a couplet by Kabir Saheb, he illustrates that the constant turmoil and chattering of the mind, which he likens to the lips being unable to stay still, stems from an unfulfilled spiritual thirst for something higher. This restlessness only subsides when the mind's inner conflicts are resolved. He uses the analogy of a tight shoe: just as one is constantly aware of the discomfort of a tight shoe and wants to remove it, one should be constantly sensitive to the mind's bondages and feel an incessant urge to be free of them. The spiritual path is not about singing praises of the sky (the high) but about using a broom to clean the dirt (the low). Acharya Prashant concludes that the essence of this high work is to continuously identify and discard the low within oneself, treating it like filth. This requires being ruthless with oneself, engaging in atonement and self-imposed discipline for one's mistakes, while simultaneously being compassionate towards others. The journey is not about reaching a distant peak from the ground but about taking one step at a time, as each step taken reveals the next. The focus must be on the immediate, practical, and grounded reality of one's life.