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Guru Vandana means “Reverence for the Teacher” – it is the thanksgiving from a student to a teacher, expressing their gratitude. The Guru Vandana program provides a platform for students to honor their teachers for imparting knowledge and wisdom to them. Guru The concept of Guru is as old as humanity itself. Primarily, the word Guru means a 'teacher and as such it is a universal concept based on the idea of transmitting knowledge from a person, who knows something, to an ignorant student or disciple. In an extended view, a Guru can also be a priest, a rabbi, a master, a school teacher, even a father or a mother. Guru does not mean a teacher imparting formal training but a person who contributes to the overall development and learning of an individual. The syllable ''gu'' means darkness, the syllable ''ru'', he who dispels them, because of the power to dispel darkness, the guru is thus named. Guru transforms his disciple through his presence and spiritual knowledge. According ...
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Guru ( sa, गुरु, IAST: ''guru;'' Pali'': garu'') is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field. In pan-Indian traditions, a guru is more than a teacher: traditionally, the guru is a reverential figure to the disciple (or '' shisya'' in Sanskrit, literally ''seeker f knowledge or truth'' or 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". Whatever language it is written in, Judith Simmer-Brown explains that a tantric spiritual text is often codified in an obscure twilight language so that it cannot be understood by anyone without the verbal explanation of a qualified teacher, the guru. A guru is also one's spiritual guide, who helps one to discover the same potentialities that the ''guru'' has already realized. The oldest references to the concep ...
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