Acharya Prashant explains that the listener's problem stems from trying to keep pace with the speaker. He clarifies that in a truly truthful discussion, the speaker is still. However, the audience is habituated to running and mistakenly thinks the speaker is also moving in a certain direction. Consequently, the audience tries to keep pace with the speaker, which is the fundamental error. This effort creates a paradox. Since the speaker is still, the more the listener tries to run to keep pace, the more they move away and lose the speaker. The only way to be with a still being is to be still oneself. The common mistake is to think that one needs to do something—like analyzing, dissecting, or concluding—to be with the speaker. This mental activity, this 'doing', is what creates distance from the speaker's stillness. Acharya Prashant distinguishes this type of spiritual discourse from an academic lecture, such as one on chemistry. In a chemistry lecture, the goal is to acquire knowledge, which inherently involves movement. In that context, one must keep pace with the speaker. A spiritual discourse, however, is dimensionally different. In an academic lecture, you must move swiftly; here, you must not move at all. There, you have to keep many things in mind; here, knowledge is of very little value, and you don't have to have a mind.