GURU
INTRODUCTION
The syllables guru stand for darkness and light , respectively, and the true meaning in the spiritual sense is a person who removes the darkness of ignorance, As the Advayataraka Upanishad says,
The syllable gu means shadows
The syllable ru, he who disperses them,
Because of the power to disperse darkness
the guru is thus named.
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