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Guru of Gurus

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Datta, the son of Atri and Anasuya, is considered Adi Guru, the first teacher. He is visualised as under a banyan tree with…

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Published August 17, 2017 · 3 min read
guru of gurus

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist

Datta, the son of Atri and Anasuya, is considered Adi Guru, the first teacher. He is visualised as under a banyan tree with a cow (who provides) and four dogs (who protect), while he enlightens. Who was his teacher? Nature, he replies. In the Avadhuta Gita, he describes 24 observations that gave him insight as his 24 Gurus.

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