Acharya Prashant addresses the question, "Why do innocent people suffer?" by first deconstructing the question itself. He points out that the assumption behind this question is that innocent people should not suffer, and even more fundamentally, that innocent people exist. He clarifies that being a person and being innocent are contradictory. There is no such thing as an innocent person. To be innocent is to be free of all blemishes and bondages, to be perfect. This is why everyone has to suffer and will suffer. The speaker explains that the very child that is born is not at all innocent. Even a fetus in the womb is not innocent. He references scriptures that state to be born itself is the first sin, as only unfulfilled desires and unsettled tendencies take birth. He cautions against the casual use of the word "innocence," which tricks us into believing it is common and widespread. In reality, innocence is something very rare and expensive that must be earned; it is not something nature distributes freely. He states that you are not innocent. Only one in a million people manages to earn innocence in the course of a great, beautiful, and extraordinary life. The story of the common life is to be born guilty and to die loaded with several million times more guilt. The speaker reframes the question to be more relevant: "Now that we do suffer, what do we do with our suffering?" He presents two choices: either let suffering become a stumbling block that de-energizes and limits you, or let it energize you towards liberation. The wise ones use suffering as fuel, inviting it to see what power it holds over them, and in doing so, they transcend it. The ones who attain innocence do not suffer internally, even if they face extreme external pain. The guilty ego is what suffers, and in the innocent one, this ego has vanished.