Acharya Prashant explains that in any given session, there are three types of people. The first type are those who are so intoxicated that the words do not even fall on their ears. If you ask them what the speaker said, they will not be able to tell. They are below the level of a machine because even a machine would record the words. Their discussion is futile; they are not there. Their existence is non-existence. They just seem to be present in their bodies on the chairs, but they are not. Their presence is an absence. This is the lowest level. Then there is a level above this. These people have paid attention, but they have paid attention with the mind. The mind has grasped what the mind can grasp, according to its capability. The mind lives in words, so it has caught the words. If you ask these people what the speaker said, they will tell you exactly. They can even write a beautiful essay on it. Everything has gone into their memory. The mind has caught it and put it into memory. But if they write that I spoke of love, did they get love from it? If they write that I spoke of joy, did they become joyful? They only got the words. For them, love is a word, joy is a word. If I spoke of understanding, did understanding dawn within them? No, they only got the letters 's', 'm', 'jh'. By getting these letters, no revolution has come within you. The truth is, even if you write the word 'revolution', you will not get a revolution. These people at the second level have also missed the point. They have only caught what the mind can catch: words. And then there are some people at the third level. They have just listened. They do not know what they have received from that listening. There was just a oneness, a connection, an identity, as if the speaker and the listener became one. The words were moving on the surface, but deep inside, another current was flowing. The real work was happening there. On the surface, it seems the speaker is speaking and the listener is listening, but deep inside, a much more profound and important event is taking place. The event is that the words that arise from this silence here, those words take you into that same silence. And these two silences become one. Now there is no difference, no speaker, no listener. Silence and silence have met. This is the real event. Now, true communication has happened, beyond words. Words into silence. The words fell on the ears in such a way that we became silent. But only those words can make you silent that are also coming from silence. This is the real listening, the art of listening. To listen in such a way that the words are left behind. If someone asks what was said, you might not be able to tell. The one on the second level will be able to tell clearly what was said. The one on the third level might not be able to tell. The one on the first level also cannot tell because he was unconscious. The one on the third level also cannot tell because he is in supreme consciousness. He will say, 'I don't remember the exact words, but something happened.' And the result of that happening is that a great peace is being experienced. Something definitely happened. This is real listening.