The Guru is not a person || (2017)

Questioner: 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, matter.

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 to speak. In such a 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 shape of the Master will change according to your shape!

As long as you are one type of a person, you will find that the Teacher is of one type. The more your constitution, your personality changes, you will find the personality of the Teacher is also changing. In fact, the Teacher has no definite personality. His personality is just a veneer that he has put up in order to assist you. You change, you will find him changing.

When you are moving out of your persona, you will find the Teacher is also moving out of your persona. That is why the Teacher is bound to disappear one day. He appears only in forms that are useful to you. The moment that utility is exhausted, he is done.

But nowhere for a moment must you start believing a person to be a Teacher, or a Teacher to be a person. The personality of the Teacher is just a temporary method. Don’t confuse the personality with the Teacher.

The Teacher really is the Truth absolute, nothing else. The Truth absolute appears as the teacher, nothing else!

‘Grace of the Master’ does not mean grace of a man or a woman. The man or the woman is in front of you – that itself is sufficient Grace.

Now what more do you need?

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