Acharya Prashant explains that listening is enough. He states that there can be thousands of processes to attain the state of peace of mind, the ultimate, enlightenment, love, or liberation. It has always been the desire of humans to attain this state, and all our restlessness is for this purpose. The deeper the restlessness, the greater the effort, and through these efforts, hundreds of methods have been created to attain what is called bliss, liberation, love, or the ultimate. These paths, created by the agitated and incomplete mind, are themselves of agitation and incompleteness. They are our own creations, and as we are, so are our paths. In contrast to these man-made paths, there is the path of listening (Shravan), which is different because it does not involve our presence. If you are truly listening, you cannot be present as 'you'. If you are present, listening cannot happen. The ultimate goal of all spiritual practices, which is the dissolution of the self, is achieved in the very first step of listening. The speaker mentions the four stages: Shravan (listening), Manan (contemplation), Nididhyasan (meditation), and Samadhi (absorption), explaining they are not separate. If listening is complete, it becomes Samadhi. The fruit of the greatest spiritual practice is available through mere listening. Acharya Prashant clarifies that listening is not just a physical event of sound waves hitting the eardrum, which a machine can also do. True listening is a living event that happens in the now. It is the union of the mind with its source, the Atma, which is Yoga. It is not about collecting words or knowledge. Real listening is when the spoken words silence the pre-existing words in the mind, do their work, and then disappear. The word that leads to silence is the true word. The Upanishads speak of Shabd-Brahman (the word as the ultimate reality) and Par-Brahman (the ultimate reality beyond words). The word is the gateway to the wordless. This is the power of the word: it can establish you directly in Brahman.