Acharya Prashant explains that a teacher is neither one nor two, but many and simultaneously nothing. Unlike ordinary people who have fixed, predictable faces, a teacher has no particular face or agenda. He is perfectly responsive to the environment and situation, which is why he will never stop surprising the disciple. The teacher's essence is simplicity and ordinariness, and he feels no compulsion to act according to respectable patterns or lofty ideals. If a disciple sees the teacher as they imagine him to be, they are far from him; the closer one gets, the more their mental idols of the teacher dissolve into the unthinkable truth.
