Acharya Prashant explains that we come from the Truth and we go into the Truth, and from the immutable we come and into theimmutable we go. In between, there is the game of time. This stream of time is peculiar; it arises from timelessness and ends in timelessness. It comes from nowhere and ends in nowhere, and in between, there is so much commotion. Between no happening and no happening, everything happens. To illustrate this, he shares an anecdote about a wise man who was asked, "Where do we come from? What do we disappear into?" In response, the wise man put out the lamp beside them and asked, "Where is the flame now?" This is how we come and go. The flame was just an appearance; the substance of the flame existed before the flame and exists after the flame. The appearance is no more, but the substance remains. The flame has been blown out, but from that substance, a million more flames could arise. It is the nature of flames to be put out, and it is the nature of the substance to keep generating flames. This concept applies to both material things and consciousness. The world is not really a thing; it is a manifestation of something that was always there, something at the foundation of the world. This can be understood as Prakriti and its three gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas). The world is a manifestation of a central principle. When it comes to the intellect, Brahman is at most a conjecture, but when it comes to the yearning of the ego, Brahman is the only reality. The boundaries of the self, of Prakriti, do not offer rest and relaxation; your consciousness is always hitting against those boundaries. Therefore, one must set a hopeless target, something that cannot be attained while remaining who you are. If you are at a level of 100, your target must be 500, a goal so distant that you must become 500 to reach it. The ego, however, wants to remain as it is and still attain bigness, which is an impossible dream. Brahman is a target that you can never attain by being yourself; it is a target that dissolves the one setting it. The only way to attain Brahman is by being Brahman. If you are anything other than Brahman, it will remain mischievously evasive.