Acharya Prashant explains that the true meaning of a divine word or teaching is found when it ceases to have any conceptual meaning at all. He asserts that understanding is the dissolution of all meanings rather than the construction of new ones. Using the example of Shri Krishna and Arjun, he clarifies that right teaching is never affirmative but is a revelation of one's falseness. When Arjun stops thinking, his self-concept dissolves, and it is Shri Krishna who acts through him. The entire teaching is about dissolution, not building up or acquiring knowledge. A real teacher does not give the student something to take home; instead, the teacher unmounts the student's baggage, which is the student's own self. If a teacher provides ideological frameworks or conceptual loads, they are merely burdening the student. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that the right meaning of a verse should have an incinerating effect, leaving the reader speechless and reduced rather than intellectually bloated. If the intellect feels it has acquired more, the ego has simply co-opted the reading as a tool. Ultimately, the right teaching is a non-teaching that annihilates and cleanses, giving the seeker nothing to keep.
