Acharya Prashant explains Shri Krishna's teaching from the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita regarding the connection between intellect, contemplation, and peace. He clarifies that for an unsteady person, both intellect and contemplation are absent because they are not rooted in the truth. Instead, such a person is committed to the ego-tendency, which leads to rootless emotions and self-destructive thoughts. The speaker emphasizes that intellect and contemplation are two parts of the same process; when one is disconnected from the truth, both the underlying passion and the resulting thoughts become directed toward falseness and suffering. Addressing the relationship between peace and happiness, Acharya Prashant asserts that in spiritual texts, true happiness refers to non-dualistic joy or bliss, which is essentially the same as peace. He cautions against creating complex divisions and distinctions, stating that spirituality is primarily about the single distinction between the truth and the false. He argues that true spirituality is freedom from the 'little self' and memory, rather than the accumulation of scholarly concepts or categories which only serve to glorify the ego and the mind. Finally, the speaker corrects the notion that humans seek happiness directly. He points out that people usually seek mediated happiness, placing conditions or middlemen—such as relationships or material possessions—between themselves and joy. This reliance on mediators actually blocks real happiness because the truth is already present and does not need to be achieved. By removing the mediator, one discovers that the need to 'achieve' truth was an illusion created by the mediator itself.