Acharya Prashant addresses the question of who experiences happiness and sorrow. He explains that the one who runs towards happiness and sorrow is the same entity one calls 'I'. This 'I' is both the enjoyer (bhokta) and the experiencer (anubhokta). The one who desires and becomes the doer (karta) is the same one who wants to experience the fruits of the action. The doer is the enjoyer. The one to whom a desire arises is the one who also experiences the fruit of that desire. One desires for the sake of experiencing the fruit. The reason this pursuit ultimately leads to sorrow is that the object of desire is not actually conducive to one's well-being. The world is like a large marketplace that can sell you things that are not just useless but also harmful. To make us foolish, the world creates desires within us. We are born with some ignorance, and the world imposes more ignorance upon us, which then becomes our desire. For instance, a child is told that if they obtain a certain thing, they will receive their mother's love. That thing then becomes the child's desire. The child, being naive, lacks the discretion to verify if the thing is truly valuable or will bring satisfaction. This desire is external and imposed. We mistakenly believe these external desires are our own, but they are not; they originate from our bodily nature or from society. The reason we chase these desires is a deep inner pain and emptiness, a constant feeling that something is wrong, like a hole in our existence. This pain compels us to run, and in our ignorance, we chase anything that promises relief. This is like a blindfolded person running; they are bound to collide and get hurt. The correct action for a blindfolded person is not to run, but to use their hands to remove the blindfold. Therefore, the first step is not to move forward blindly but to know. Moving forward should be done with understanding. Our education and culture emphasize running forward, but the real need is to know first.