Acharya Prashant explains that there are three states of the mind from which our actions can emerge. The first is the distracted state, where the mind is not at its center but is also unaware of this fact. Its sleep and unconsciousness are so deep that whatever it does in this state is madness. This is the state in which most people live most of the time. They are in sorrow but do not know the real cause, instead attributing it to superficial reasons like lack of money or sour relationships. This is the definition of the distracted state: to be in sorrow and not even understand why. The second state of the mind is that of longing. In this state, the mind is away from the center but has awakened enough to know that it is away. It understands that its restlessness is due to this separation. While both the distracted mind and the mind in longing are distant from the source, the difference is that the distracted mind is unaware of this distance, whereas the mind in longing knows it. This longing is auspicious because it marks the end of distraction. The pain of longing is a sign that sovereignty is not far. The speaker quotes Farid, saying that longing is the king, and the body in which longing does not arise is like a graveyard. A distracted person runs in ten directions, but a person in longing runs in one direction—inward. The third state is that of sovereignty, which is the state of attainment. After attaining, the mind dances, and this dance itself is its action. It no longer needs to attain anything else; it simply has to dance and play without purpose. The running has stopped. The final point of longing is to attain this sovereignty, this ultimate wealth, after which no poverty is experienced. In this state, there is no feeling of lack, so there is no need to search for the cause of any lack.