Acharya Prashant explains the difference between consuming happiness and cultivating happiness, based on an excerpt from the book 'Listen, Little Man!'. He begins by defining happiness as a glimpse of the absence of suffering. Humans seek happiness because their default state is suffering. Man is described as a 'suffering animal,' more capable of suffering than any other being because suffering requires a consciousness with depth, which man possesses. This suffering arises from the tragic situation of having a consciousness that desires the limitless while being trapped within a limited physical body, confined by time and space. This inherent suffering creates a constant hunger for happiness, making it a precious commodity. However, the speaker distinguishes between two types of happiness. The common, superficial happiness, or 'sukh', is ephemeral and dualistic; it is always preceded and succeeded by sadness ('dukh'). This is the happiness that is consumed. In contrast, real happiness, or 'Anand' (joy/bliss), is permanent, non-dual, and represents total freedom from both superficial happiness and sadness. This is what it means to enjoy happiness in full freedom. The act of consuming happiness, termed 'bhog', is what the 'little man' does. He takes the fleeting moments of pleasure, the 'seeds' of happiness, for instant gratification without taking responsibility for their preservation. Cultivating happiness, on the other hand, is using these glimpses as a motivation to seek something deeper and lasting. It involves taking the seeds of happiness and sowing them to grow a full crop. This cultivation is a spiritual practice ('sadhana') that leads to 'Anand'. A 'little man' consumes the seeds for instant gratification, whereas a wise person, with patience and responsibility, cultivates them to achieve deeper, lasting happiness.