From a spiritual perspective, the main driver of purposelessness is the absence of spiritual identity.

We are eternal spiritual beings temporarily residing in physical bodies, but most people mistakenly identify themselves as their body or mind and therefore with the desires of the body and mind. This misidentification, therefore, leads to seeking happiness through bodily experiences or mental experiences, and it explains why, in spite of our having pleasurable experiences, people ultimately feel empty and unfulfilled.

A spiritual awakening changes one's perspective on self, others, and the world, and provides us with spiritual ‘nutrition’. The process for having such an awakening is through meditation upon transcendental sound, or mantra.