A questioner asks Acharya Prashant about a paradox: understanding that everything in life is temporary leads to detachment, but this detachment can also cause demotivation to start anything new. Acharya Prashant responds by explaining that detachment and compassion must come together. He states that the source of all misery in the world is taking the ephemeral as permanent. We try to seek permanence and even timelessness where it is not, which leads to great misery and violence. Acharya Prashant addresses the questioner, acknowledging that he is detached because he can see that things are ever-changing and in flux. However, he asks, "Does everybody see all this?" If not, then where is one's compassion? He questions if detachment is just for one's own benefit, meaning being detached from everything in the world but not from oneself. He compares this to a little kid hiding fruit for themselves. True detachment means you would not raise castles in the air or expect favorable results from things that are ephemeral and fallible. He suggests that if you do not want to do anything for your own sake, then do it for others; this is compassion. When you work for yourself, your energy is limited because the personal self is limited and false. But when you dedicate yourself to working for the common good, you find yourself blessed with unlimited energy. This leads to an unending project, and you will always have something to do. The speaker introduces three states of mind: a demotivated mind, a motivated mind, and the state of motivelessness, which is the state of highest energy. Because you are motiveless, you cannot be frustrated or defeated. To be motiveless is, in a sense, to be desireless. When there is no object to be desired, desire is unending. This special kind of desire for the immense lends meaning and purpose to life. The project then becomes to bring light to others, the same light that helps you be detached.