Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why existence contains suffering. He clarifies that in Prakriti (nature), the nature is not of suffering. Suffering arises the moment one says, "my nature." He quotes Rabindranath Tagore, who beautifully said, "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth." The speaker explains that suffering is due to fanciful concepts. Otherwise, there is just the flow of life. Suffering occurs because you do not take yourself as life in totality; instead, you take yourself as an isolated segment with boundaries, thinking, "I am only this much." You create yourself as a part of the whole and then want to consume the whole to become whole. This division of existence into two parts, "I" and "the world" or "me" and "the universe," is the root of the problem. The moment you create this duality of "this and that," suffering begins. The questioner then asks if the process is about returning to an initial state. Acharya Prashant refutes this, stating that one cannot go back, and there is no point in it. The past is not the solution. You can only be better than you are today, and being better means being lesser than you are today. The solution lies in the observation of the present, not in a fictitious return to the past. It is about seeing and realizing what is going on, not about taking action without knowing what is happening.