Anyone truly yearning for spiritual answers eventually looks for a Teacher or Guru who can guide him in the right direction. The land of India is filled with a rich history of spiritual teqachers called Gurus. These people who have promoted spirituality, meditation, love, peace, brotherhood, serving others and other such humanitarian values to people in India and the rest of the world include:

Adi Shankaracharya | Andal | Sri Aurobindo | Avvaiyyar | Chinmayananda | Dayanand Saraswati | Guru Nanak Dev | Gyaneshwar | Sant Kabir | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Anandamayi Ma | Mira Alfassa | Namadeva | Nammalwar | Osho Rajneesh | Paramahansa Yogananda | Patanjali | Ramakrishna Paramahansa | Ramdev Baba | Sathya Sai Baba | Shirdi Sai Baba | Shri Yogendra | Swami Sivananda | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Surdas | Swami Vivekananda | Tukaram | Valmiki | Vishwamitra and our own Guru, Vethathiri Maharishi

In this section on Indian Gurus, we will provided a brief biography of the our favorite spiritual and religious leaders in India, starting with a man who started out as a attorney/barister for the crown - Mahatma Gandhi.