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adi-guru

आदिगुरु ādi-guru

The first or primordial teacher, at the head of every lineage of transmission. Dakshinamurti, Shiva as the silent guru, is honoured as the adi-guru of the knowledge traditions; the Advaita lineages trace their descent of teachers back through named human masters to this form, and beyond it to Shiva.

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