A questioner asks why, despite experiencing great sorrow and being on the path of self-knowledge, her ego and body-consciousness persist, leading to a constant need to prove herself. Acharya Prashant explains that sorrow and body-consciousness are inherent aspects of our nature (Prakriti) and may be meant to stay. He clarifies that our only right is to *know* that these things exist. There is a significant difference between the state of "There is sorrow" and the awareness "I know there is sorrow." The common response of desiring happiness to counter sorrow is not the solution. The state of sorrow cannot be answered by the desire for happiness; the true answer is to simply know that sorrow is present. Acharya Prashant further elaborates that our constitution is rigidly hardwired, making it difficult to change its activities. However, there is something that is not only easy but instantaneous: to know whatever is happening. The goal should not be to change the situation, which is a mistake, but to simply know it. Desire is always focused on a future result, whereas in witnessing, there is no future; one just sees what is, without any desire to alter it. The questioner's query itself contains a desire to remove sorrow and attain happiness, which is understandable but not the correct remedy. When sorrow arises, one should observe it as if it belongs to someone else, almost like a joke, and acknowledge, "Yes, I am sad." The role of Purusha (Consciousness) is not to alter the system of Prakriti (nature). Liberation does not mean changing Prakriti's ways. Spirituality is about becoming free from Prakriti by letting it function while remaining a witness. The magic of Vedanta, he explains, is that it doesn't eliminate sorrow but eliminates the "sorrowful one." When you become a witness to your sorrow, you are no longer the one who is sorrowful. The sorrowful entity disappears. You may not attain happiness, but the one who was sorrowful is gone. If the sorrowful one is gone, who is the sorrow for? Sorrow troubles you only when you become sorrowful by attaching to it. Vedanta provides a new task: witnessing. The one who was sorrowful jumps out of the sorrow to become a witness, observing his own sorrow and tears. After a while, he might find it a boring spectacle and move on.