Acharya Prashant addresses the question of whether pleasure is a necessity for human survival. He begins by defining pleasure using an analogy. We all operate at a certain level of the mind or consciousness, which is our current potential level. However, our total potentiality is huge. When two points of differing potential are connected, a flow occurs, like an electric current. This flow is what is called pleasure; it is the experience that something is happening. There are two kinds of pleasure, corresponding to the direction of this flow. The first is the pleasure of ascension, which occurs when you connect your current level to something of a higher potential. This is the right kind of pleasure, the pleasure of rising up and flying high, which he also calls "joy." The second kind of pleasure occurs when you connect your current potential to a place of lower potential. This also creates a flow and is experienced as pleasure, but it is the kind of pleasure that sinks you and degrades you. Unfortunately, most of the pleasures people experience are of this downward-flowing kind, and the word "pleasure" has become synonymous with a fall. One rarely finds someone rising in pleasure; instead, moments of pleasure are often moments of falling in life. Acharya Prashant agrees that pleasure is greatly important and that we cannot live without it. However, he stresses that we need the upward kind of pleasure. The market typically serves the downward kind, which is cheap and easily available, such as getting drunk, debauchery, or overeating. In contrast, the higher pleasure, or joy, is demanding, expensive, and requires discipline, intelligence, and devotion. He explains that while a characteristic of the right thing is that it is immensely pleasurable, this is not an exclusive trait, as wrong things can also be pleasurable. Therefore, one must be discreet. Spirituality is about having great pleasures that normal people cannot even imagine. The truly spiritual person is not living a dull or dead life but is drunk on this higher pleasure, this inner euphoria.