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Meaning of Guru in Sanskrit

Guru is a Sanskrit term that refers to a teacher, guide, expert, or master in certain knowledge or fields. In many Indian traditions, a guru is seen as more than just a teacher and helps students discover their spiritual potential by dispelling darkness and guiding them towards light, serving as a counselor who helps shape values and shares experiential knowledge to aid in students' spiritual evolution.

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Meaning of Guru in Sanskrit

Guru is a Sanskrit term that refers to a teacher, guide, expert, or master in certain knowledge or fields. In many Indian traditions, a guru is seen as more than just a teacher and helps students discover their spiritual potential by dispelling darkness and guiding them towards light, serving as a counselor who helps shape values and shares experiential knowledge to aid in students' spiritual evolution.

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Guru (/ˈɡuːruː/, UK also /ˈɡʊruː, ˈɡʊər-/; Sanskrit: गगगग, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term for a

"teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.[1] In pan-Indian traditions, guru is
more than a teacher, in Sanskrit guru means the one who dispels the darkness and takes towards
light, traditionally a reverential figure to the student, with the guru serving as a "counselor, who
helps mold values, shares experiential knowledge as much as literal knowledge, an exemplar in life,
an inspirational source and who helps in the spiritual evolution of a student".[2] A guru is also one's
spiritual guide, who helps one to discover the same potentialities that the guru has already
realized.[3] In Indonesian[4] and Malay the word means teacher.

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