Bhakti-Tirtha Swami: Seminar Trust and Forgiveness.
August 25, 2001. Croatia.
Another type of dependency is not healthy is if we have a guru based physical considerations, sentimental or emotional, and therefore the guru becomes your lover in a worldly sense. We began to see the guru as our boyfriend, or husband do not have, or did not have, or we would have. Or see the spiritual master with the qualities we would like to see in our spouse and therefore if we have a husband, we started having a relationship in our minds with the guru as our physical lover.
So, these are types of unhealthy relationships. We have a relationship with the guru because we like singing, or reminiscent of an old boyfriend. We have a relationship with the guru, or choose a guru, because we like how he gets his dhoti, or the languages \u200b\u200bspoken, or because he is tall, and we like tall men, or he is very squat, and we like dwarf men. Or will we attract the guru because he reminds us of a school teacher who had the passion. All kinds of wrong things. Sounds strange, but you'd be surprised how often people choose to worldly considerations based guru. And then they want to reciprocate the guru based on such considerations. All these types of relationships are not healthy.
translation by Devi Dasi, disciple of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami
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