A teacher is a means by which unhappiness is overcome and satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana attained.

How is a teacher a means by which unhappiness is overcome?

A teacher is helpful and essential if one is to overcome unhappiness and attain satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana.

It is through a relationship with a teacher who has overcome unhappiness that one overcomes unhappiness.

And it is through a relationship with a teacher who has attained satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana that one grows to attain satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana.

And it is through a relationship with a teacher who has attained knowledge of the self, unhappiness, satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana that one attains knowledge of the self, unhappiness, satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana.