The principle of an authoritative teacher who transmits realized understanding rather than mere information, central across many of the traditions this archive covers despite their otherwise significant differences.
Guru names a principle running across many of the traditions this archive covers despite their otherwise significant differences: the conviction that certain kinds of understanding are properly transmitted through a living, authoritative teacher, rather than recoverable from texts alone by a sufficiently diligent solitary reader.
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A body of philosophical texts that shifted attention from ritual toward questions about the self, reality, and liberation.
The founding figure of the Sikh tradition, a teacher and poet whose work emphasized devotion, ethical living, and social equality.
An influential philosopher associated with a non-dualist reading of Vedanta and with extensive commentarial work — with much of his biography known through later tradition.
The traditional systematizer of yoga philosophy, credited with compiling the Yoga Sutras into a coherent path of disciplined liberation.