Acharya Prashant explains that human suffering arises not from the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of desires, but from the false sense of ownership over them. He uses the analogy of a car being stolen to illustrate that the impact of an event depends entirely on the feeling of 'mine-ness'. He asserts that desires are external phenomena that enter the mind through the senses, such as the smell of food or visual stimuli, rather than being inherent to the individual. This is evidenced by the fact that desires are absent during deep sleep and only activate when the senses and memory become conscious and interact with the world of duality.