Acharya Prashant responds to a question about J. Krishnamurti's statement that no guru is needed. He agrees, explaining that since all responsibility is one's own, there is no need to even take the name of an external person. The guru is, first and foremost, internal. He clarifies his position by stating, "I am saying the guru is firstly internal, Krishnamurti is saying the guru is *only* internal." He accepts Krishnamurti's point as the purest expression of this idea, acknowledging that if the inner self is ready to listen, then even walls can speak and stones can teach. The song of birds becomes the Gita. The matter is about one's own consent and maturity. Once that is present, everything starts to teach, and there is no need to search for a specific person or guru. Addressing Krishnamurti's point about not needing scriptures or external gurus, Acharya Prashant explains that this is a psychological approach to make the individual take full responsibility. He says that if you tell someone an external source will help, they will climb on its back and become dependent. However, no one can carry you to the immortal abode (Amarpur). Even Shri Krishna could only speak to Arjun; he couldn't force him to understand, which is why the discourse stretched to 700 verses. Even after that, scriptures say Arjun did not fully understand the matter completely. Krishnamurti's intention, according to the speaker, is to make one realize that the entire matter is about one's own preparation. Therefore, he dismisses the external. Acharya Prashant then offers a slightly different perspective, which he says is not actually different. He argues that if one must observe all of life, then one should also observe the Bhagavad Gita. Just as one learns from a bird on a wire, one should also learn from Shri Krishna. He states that he has not excluded others; whoever comes to teach, he will bow before them. Acharya Prashant explains that Krishnamurti's strong stance was a reaction to the context of his time, particularly in India from the 1950s to the 1980s, which was rife with hypocrisy, superstition, and blind faith. People were not interested in understanding but in rituals and following priests. To counter this extreme, Krishnamurti had to take an equally extreme position, rejecting all authority, gurus, and scriptures. The speaker concludes by saying that the one who has learned is a different 'I' (Aham) from the one who was learning. The one who learned was the ego, and now he is the Self (Atma), and the Self does not learn from anyone. Therefore, he says, "I have not learned from anyone."