Spiritual teacher’s house, where pupils were educated. (Glossary for the Vahinis)

Gurukul---a place where teachers and taught will grow together in love and wisdom, as close to the ideas of the hermitages of the past as possible under present conditions. Gurukula atmosphere is fostered and maintained, uncontaminated. (SSS Vol.11, p. 83)

The world is a veritable University for man; it is a Gurukul (sacred commune of preceptor with disciples) where he is a pupil from birth to death. (SSS Vol.11, p. 146)

When the young are at the Gurukul, with fellow students and teachers, engaged in study, one had to strive ceaselessly to cultivate serenity, purity and detachment, and try to identify their truth. (SSS Vol.19, p. 97)

Even princes had to go to the ashram of a Guru to study, and no distinction was made between the rich and the poor or high and low among students. Even though Krishna and Balarama had exhibited superhuman powers in vanquishing Kamsa and other demons, they had to learn the regular lessons in Brahma Vidya from sage Sandheepani, in his ashram in the forest. They had to go to the forest and gather firewood for the Guru’s household. All the students had to share the work in the ashram among themselves equally without any distinction. At the end of the educational course the students used to give Gurudakshina (offering to the preceptor). (SSS Vol.28, p. 86)