Why Burn the Candle after Bedikas Chametz

After the Bedikas Chametz, we burn the utensils when we burn the leaven. It makes sense to burn the feather and spoon since they may have touched chametz, but why burn the candle?

The Rebbe of Seret-Vizhnitz says light is meant to be used for seeing good. For example, the Torah says, “Ohr zarua latzaddik,” light is sown for the righteous. Also, “Who is the man who desires life? One who loves days to see goodness.” We are supposed to seek out the good.

On the night before Pesach, though, we use the candle to find the bad, the chametz which we want to dispose of. Such a candle, whose purpose is to look for the negative, has no use the rest of the year and should be destroyed.