In response to a question about how sages like Ashtavakra and Adi Shankara attained wisdom at a young age, Acharya Prashant explains that ages like eight or fourteen are actually very old. He posits that a child finds living unbearable from the moment it is conceived. He refers to scriptures that detail the agony of the fetus in the womb, which repents its existence. This, he clarifies, is not an objective fact but an important pointer towards the nature of human consciousness. The core idea is that existence itself is suffering. The moment consciousness gains existence, it is sorrow and suffering that has taken life. To be embodied is itself a limitation and a bondage. While one's true nature is expansive and infinite, the bodily existence is limited to a specific height and width, which is a great bondage. What we call our existence is a limited and false kind of existence that inherently brings sorrow. Everything about a person—senses, thoughts—is limited, leading to perpetual dissatisfaction. This is why even a life full of so-called happiness will eventually end, leading to sorrow. Even absolute happiness cannot provide absolute happiness because the life enjoying it is finite. The speaker explains that one does not need to reach a certain age to realize sorrow. He references the scriptures' classification of three kinds of sorrows: material (Adhibhautik), elemental (Adhidaivik), and spiritual (Adhyatmik). The spiritual sorrow, or 'Adhyatmik Taap', is the highest sorrow that exists simply because one exists, without any external reason. It does not wait for one to turn 15 or 25. Most people, however, have been so dumbed down by the daily cycles of trivial pleasures that they are no longer alert to their inner condition and thus do not perceive this fundamental sorrow. Using Siddhartha Gautama as an example, he illustrates that despite having all worldly pleasures, his inner sensitivity and honesty allowed him to see the suffering in the world through common sights like old age, sickness, and death. This realization requires an inner honesty to acknowledge the immensity of the truth that the world is suffering. Experiencing this sorrow is not a bad thing, as the acknowledgment of sorrow is the beginning of freedom from it.