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Modern age self proclaimed gurus......... do you know, the disqualifications for this post? So how 1000's every day are becoming gurus?

*A list of disqualifications for a person intends to be a Guru:

*(As per ancient guru sutras)

Himsa (injury)	sinning	bad reputation	devious mind	cruelty (Krura)	selling gold
thieving	plagued with troubles and worries	bad character	adulterous	foul language	deformed
sensuous	deceiver	adharma	talkative	greedy	miserly
liar	hyperactive	lacks reverence	devoid of acaras	many blemishes	money-minded
Consumption (TB)	Skin disease	diseased nails	diseased teeth	deafness	cataract
bald	lame	deformed	extra body parts	conjunctivitis	halitosis
large testicles!	hunchback	leper	impotence	breaks Kaula practices	loudmouth
pure ritualist	physician	arrogance	vanity	addiction	wicked
bad company	unbeliever	timid	ignorance of Mantras	epicurean	astrologer
usurps property from pupil	wastes Sisya's money	harms out of greed	arthic prachara (financial publicity)	ganatkar (fortune-teller)	bahu-bachana (talketive)

We will find quite lots of disqualification with our self-proclaimed modern age Gurus. Please do understand all the above mentioned qualities have profound impacts on mind and consciousness of a individual, and acts as next to impossible barrier to the process of journey of nir-guna Sattava, which is the only quality of a true GURU. So is truely possible for all these 1000's of self-proclaimed person's to be a guru?

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Comment by Ajith on July 3, 2010 at 11:01am: amazing,gurus without any of these disqualifications would be rare and hard to find. Ideally, a good guru should not have most of the disqualifications listed above.

Comment by SWAAMEE_APRTEMAANANDAA_JEE on June 10, 2010 at 3:29am: Your observation, MOSTLY, is true. However, I've to add most humbly here that the TRUE SPRITUAL HUMAN MASTERS have SOMETIMES to suffer diseases and ailments like any other ordinary human being. For example, Swami Ramakrishana Paramhansa was suffering suffer from the throat-cancer when he left this mortal world. But, this these pure souls do mercifully only to to take on their own physical being the sufferings of other lesser mortals around..........as did Swami Ramakrishana Paramhansa in terms of suffering from the throat-cancer even in his dying last moments in this mortal world..................!