Acharya Prashant explains that one should not view a Guru as an external entity sought due to a lack of personal capacity. Instead, the Guru is one's own inner potential and intense desire for liberation taking a physical form to awaken the capacity within. If the Guru is perceived as a stranger or an outsider, true help cannot be received. The Guru appears externally only because the individual has developed the habit of listening to external influences; it is an act of compassion where the inner truth manifests outwardly to gain the seeker's attention. He describes three states of being: the lowest state, shared by ninety-nine percent of people, where there is no Guru either inside or outside, leaving only darkness and ego. The second state belongs to the one percent who possess a deep desire for freedom, causing their own inner urge to manifest as an external Guru. The rarest and highest state is when the seeker becomes so unified with the Guru that the external form disappears and the Guru becomes entirely internal once more. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that the Guru's presence depends entirely on the seeker's own readiness and capacity.