The ultimate goal is to raise your level of awareness so that you can become conscious of spirituality. Once you have that consciousness, why do you live in your body? The evil inclination convinces us that we are our body and that we must pursue our physical needs, but in reality we are a spiritual being trapped in the jail of a physical form and must eventually break out of it. Most people only ever catch small glimpses here and there of what true spirituality is. A person must constantly examine his own deeds in order to understand what is happening in his life. If a person is suffering, he must evaluate if he is spending the proper amount of time learning Torah.