These gurus led broad ranges of studies including Hindu scriptures, Buddhist texts, grammar, philosophy, martial arts, music and painting. By about mid 1st millennium CE, archaeological and epigraphical evidence suggest numerous larger institutions of gurus existed in India, some near Hindu temples, where guru-shishya tradition helped preserve, create and transmit various fields of knowledge. The guru, and gurukula – a school run by guru, were an established tradition in India by the 1st millennium BCE, and these helped compose and transmit the various Vedas, the Upanishads, texts of various schools of Hindu philosophy, and post-Vedic Shastras ranging from spiritual knowledge to various arts. The oldest references to the concept of guru are found in the earliest Vedic texts of Hinduism. A guru is also one's spiritual guide, who helps one to discover the same potentialities that the guru has already realized. 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. 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 ) 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'. Guru ( / ˈ ɡ uː r uː/, UK also / ˈ ɡ ʊr uː, ˈ ɡ ʊər-/ Sanskrit: गुरु, IAST: guru Pali : garu) is a Sanskrit term for a ' mentor, guide, expert, or master' of certain knowledge or field.

For other uses, see Guru (disambiguation).

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