A machine is unconscious and hence its perfection is limited, a man is half-conscious with the possibility of collaborating in the evolutionary process and becoming fully conscious.
This is the great difference between the Hindu approach, almost inbuilt in the Hindu DNA, and major world religions where things began and ended with one founder and one book.
Guru or the one who gives Light, one who is heavy with Wisdom is an aspect of the Divine. He also represents the Compassion of the Divine that leans down into the earthly play to help man