Acharya Prashant explains a verse from Guru Nanak Dev Ji, beginning with "By thinking, He cannot be reduced to thought, even by thinking hundreds of thousands of times. By remaining silent, inner silence is not obtained, even by remaining lovingly absorbed deep within. The hunger of the hungry is not appeased, even by piling up loads of worldly goods." He asks who it is that is always engaged in thinking, who can never be quiet, and whose hunger and dissatisfaction never end. The answer is the mind. The speaker elaborates that the mind's only tool is contemplation, but Guru Nanak states right at the beginning that thinking, even a hundred thousand times, will not lead to the Truth. No matter how great a thinker one may be, thought and contemplation cannot lead to the Truth; they are merely a form of noise. The path to the Truth, as Guru Nanak indicates next, is through silence. However, there is a predicament: the mind cannot attain silence because, for the mind, even silence is just another concept, an object to be acquired. The mind perceives silence as a presence, whereas true silence is an absence. The mind, in its inherent state of restlessness and noise, cannot achieve silence. Its very attempt to attain silence becomes another form of noise. He further explains that the mind cannot attain silence through any practice or method, as these are all mental activities that only reinforce the mind's existence. Silence means the dissolution of the mind's individual entity and its surrender to the source. This is the only way. The speaker criticizes the deeply ingrained human habit of believing that everything valuable must be obtained through labor, cleverness, and crooked means. He likens this to a tired man climbing a mountain who, to alleviate his fatigue, is advised to carry more weight, which only adds to his burden. Similarly, the mind, which is the source of restlessness, cannot find peace through more of its own activity, which is thinking. The speaker concludes by stating that the mind is caught in a cycle of thinking, moving in circles on the same worn-out paths. This circular movement can never lead to a new destination. The only way out is to stop. He emphasizes that the mind's constant chattering is not its own voice but the accumulated voices of the world—parents, friends, education, religion. The mind's own voice is the voice of the source, which is silence. When the mind becomes empty of all external voices, the unstruck sound begins to resonate within it.