More than this, the presence of the guru is an example to the pupil. Nothing can help study or meditation as much as the mere presence, the contact, the association with the teacher. By this means the pupil understands how the teacher would act under various circumstances. It is true that sympathy itself is a very great thing, because by it the pupil intuitively knows what the answer is to this problem or that. Truth can not be spoken in words, apart from the teacher. So if the real essential truth cannot be expressed in words or in writing, how could you learn it? It must be learned by contact. How can you learn it by contact? Well, you see this in your daily life. If your sensibilities are delicate, you can tell whether a person is pleased or displeased without him speaking a word. You can tell if he is inclined favorably or unfavorably to you. When this is so, there is an exchange of thought between yourself and the other person. More than this, there is an exchange of spiritual vibrations. Just by study or practice one cannot realize that truth, that feeling, that peace, that joy, that is beyond words, which belongs to being ourselves, our natural self. In the East we call this "tawajjeh," which means "Presence, contact, association with." It is in that way that one learns what cannot be learnt any other way.