According to the Vedic scriptures, the primary criterion of a genuine guru can be fathomed by the quality of the words the teacher speaks. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Sri Krishna, the original spiritual master, tells his disciple Arjuna, “The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth".
Therefore we understand that, a genuine guru must have realized the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, and he must be able to impart this truth to his disciple, thus freeing him or her from repeated cycle of birth and death.
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