“It is the business of the guru to deliver this disciple, sisya, from this blazing fire of samsara, samsrti, bandha, conditioned life, to save him from that position and give him the eternal happiness, brahma-saukhyam anantam [SB 5.5.1].”

Srimad-Bhagavatam lecture 3.26.7 — Bombay, December 19, 1974