Acharya Prashant explains that peace of mind is not the same as the thought of pleasure or the feeling of happiness. He clarifies that one does not go to a temple to get rid of sadness alone, but rather to transcend the duality of both happiness and sadness. Happiness is described as being as much of a burden on the mind as sadness, as they are two ends of the same spectrum separated only by time. True peace is found in silence and nothingness, which is the source from which all things arise. He emphasizes that a temple is not a place for the fulfillment of personal wishes, but a place where one realizes their true nature as the source itself. Acharya Prashant further asserts that peace is freedom from wishes rather than their fulfillment. He notes that as long as an individual approaches the divine with a sense of littleness or desire, they will fail to connect with the unlimited. The divine can only be known by becoming like it—total and complete. He concludes that the limited mind cannot grasp the unlimited; one must move beyond identification with desires and the small self to experience true silence. When an individual lives in their natural state of silence, they themselves become a walking temple.