The Guru is not a person

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Acharya Ji, I would want to know a little bit about the Master’s Grace, the master as a person.

Acharya Prashant: What happens is that, sitting as you are, you take yourself to be a person. When I speak in Hindi, it becomes a little difficult for you because the person that you are does not know Hindi. So even to be a recipient of Grace, the person’s struggles with his personal limitations, matters.

Grace might be falling freely, but you are not in a position to receive it, because you are confined with the limits of the person. And the person does not know Hindi. Hence you require a medium on the outside that tallies with, who is conducive to, who matches with the requirements of your personality.

In such a case, the Master, also needs to be a person.

Because you cannot hear walls speak. The wall is as open a book as the Upanishads. But you cannot hear the walls speak. Because you are a person, you only need a person speak. In such case, you require that Grace appears in front of you like a person. Otherwise, the Master is really not a person.

And the more you advance, the more your person-hood is dissolved, the more you see, you do not need a person in front of you. In fact, the…