Acharya Prashant responds to a questioner who is struggling to understand a paradoxical teaching. The speaker begins by analyzing the questioner's phrases: "giving it a place," "grasping," and "getting it." He explains that these actions are an attempt to integrate what is being said into one's pre-existing knowledge. Using an analogy, he compares this to bringing a new item home and trying to find a place for it, asking whether the new item shakes up the house or merely decorates it further. To try and "show it its place" is an insult to the teaching. Acharya Prashant states that it is great if one is not "getting it," because one does not have to. He says, "If you think you have understood, then you are quite unfortunate." He likens the process of "getting it" to spoiling a clean shirt; this place is a laundry meant for cleaning, but the listener keeps staining the shirt by trying to possess the knowledge. This act of "getting it" or "grasping it" is merely concept formation, which makes one feel happy because they can then summarize or repeat the words to others. This attempt to grasp is a repetition of who one already is. The speaker identifies an "agency"—the ego—that sits between the speaker and the listener, doing all the talking, distorting, and laying claim over the knowledge. He contrasts listening to a teacher with listening to a railway announcement. At the station, one must get the information to avoid missing the train. Here, however, if you "get it," you miss life. Listening is difficult because there is nothing in it for the ego, which constantly asks, "What did I get?" The answer is nothing. In fact, instead of gaining, one loses something, which is terrible for the ego. Acharya Prashant advises not to try to do anything with the words—not to analyze, churn, interpret, or dissect them. Our training and education have conditioned the mind to constantly do something with words, but this is not needed here. The speaker is still, so there is no need to run to keep pace; doing so would mean running ahead of the speaker. Simply sitting here is sufficient. He concludes by teaching how to express gratitude, stating that if one knew gratitude, one would know everything and wouldn't need the teaching.