Gurucharitra Guide

The Gurucharitra offers several key teachings that are essential to spiritual growth and self-realization:

Unlike philosophical texts, the Gurucharitra promises material and therapeutic results: exorcism of bhūta-preta (ghosts), healing of infertility, removal of snake curses (Chapter 18). These functions position the text as a cikitsā-śāstra (therapeutic scripture) for householder devotees. gurucharitra