Acharya Prashant explains that when a man wants the company or proximity of gods, it is for the fulfillment of his own personal objectives. As a man, he has certain desires that he cultivates while remaining a man. He then seeks the company of the highest or the attainment of the highest for the fulfillment of these very desires, which will only further his continuation as a small and caged self. The speaker emphasizes that the man is not seeking the company of the highest to transform into the highest, but rather to fulfill his lowest desires. The highest is just a means or a method. The real end is always the gratification of the lowly self. The speaker elaborates that it is understandable that the ego wants to misuse the highest as a method. Even when the end is liberation, realization, God-attainment, or dissolution of the self, it is still the ego targeting something high. The ego's internal process must be understood. The ego has a limited being and therefore an equally limited imagination. It is fond of imagining, visualizing a target, and then going after it. The ego cannot pursue anything without having an idea or image of it; it is ideas and images that tempt and drive the ego. When the ego says it wants liberation or God, it actually wants an image of its own truth, its own God, its own version of liberation. The speaker explains that the ego is a thirsty thing, a beggar. It cannot wander aimlessly or roam about just for joy; it needs to have aims. All aims arise from the ego's idea of its own poverty and deprivation. It is from the image that the ego has of itself that it manufactures an image of what it ought to have. The idea of future attainment comes from the idea of present deprivation. Therefore, as long as the ego believes in its own existence, it cannot work without aims, ideas, targets, and images. And if the ego is working for its betterment, it surely believes in its battered and deprived state. The image of the solution will be coming from the problemed seeker, and therefore, the image of the solution will itself be problemed.