Acharya Prashant explains that, like any other activity, laughter can originate from two very distinct points within us. The first and most common type of laughter arises when one is pleased and one's desires are fulfilled. When you want something and you get it, you feel happy and you laugh. This is the laughter that comes from the satisfaction of desire and the fulfillment of the ego. The ego, which feels hard-pressed, incomplete, and not satiated, receives a temporary impression of fulfillment, which leads to laughter. There is another, different kind of laughter. In this type, one laughs not at the fulfillment of desire, but at desire itself. There is no specific reason behind this laughter; it comes from simply observing the desirous life, with all its inherent contradictions and absurdities. The speaker states that our life itself is the biggest joke, and every joke is a factual representation of our life. To be able to laugh at this, one needs a certain distance. This is why it is difficult to laugh when a joke is about you; instead of being pleasing, it becomes humiliating. The first kind of laughter is born of attachment to oneself, while the second kind comes from witnessing oneself. The first has a clear purpose and objective, whereas the second is free from all purposes, objectives, and limitations. It is a laughter in freedom—freedom from oneself. This laughter is reasonless, purposeless, and detached. It is a laughter in gratitude, where one is so fulfilled that they do not need to depend on any kind of satisfaction. This state of 'okayness' is the source of true laughter.