Acharya Prashant explains that human beings typically experience only two kinds of happiness, both of which are flawed. The first is sensate happiness, which originates from external stimuli entering through the senses, such as the aroma of food or visual beauty. Because this happiness depends on external factors, the individual is not its master; the presence of the object brings pleasure, while its absence inevitably leads to pain. The second kind is purely mental happiness, which includes memories of the past, imaginations of the future, or dreams. He argues that these are unreal and deceptive, as they are based on images rather than reality.