Acharya Prashant responds to a question about why our happiness is dependent on others by stating that not just our happiness, but our entire being, including our sorrows, excitement, boredom, aspirations, and fears, is dependent on others. He explains that if someone can make you laugh, they can also make you cry. This dependency arises because we have not known our true Self (Atman). We are like a 'khichdi' (mixture), a collection of influences from others, with nothing truly our own. This state of having nothing of our own is what he calls slavery. He elaborates that we live like beggars, constantly seeking things like money, prestige, love, and validation from the outside world. This constant seeking leads to a perpetual feeling of emptiness, loneliness, and complaint, rather than gratitude for what we already have. We are so dependent that we even seek validation from complete strangers. The speaker asserts that the only real suffering of a human being is not having found the Self. The world becomes a source of suffering only when we approach it as beggars, trying to construct our identity from it, piece by piece. The solution, he suggests, is to live in the consciousness that we are not beggars. We must cultivate a deep-seated faith that our existence is our right and that we are inherently complete and not flawed. Unlike other creatures in existence who are content in their being, only humans feel they are not right. He urges the listener to discard this feeling of inferiority. Humans have been gifted with the unique ability to understand. The choice is to either live a life dependent on the world or to live by this innate understanding.