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The following is a quote from a lecture by Vivekananda "The need of a guru" Volume 3 complete works section, Bhakti Yoga, which applies to what are here called ambiguous gurus.
"There are still greater dangers in regard to the transmitter, the guru. There are many who though immersed in ignorance, yet, in the pride of their hearts, fancy they know everything, and not only do they stop there, but offer to take others on their shoulders; and thus the blind leading the blind both fall in the ditch."Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind""The World is full of these. Everyone wants to be a teacher, every beggar wants to make a gift of a million dollars! Just as these beggars are ridiculous, so are these teachers."
(Katha Up. I ii 5)
Ambiguous gurus consititute by far the largest category of spiritual guru or teacher. They might include anything from pseudospiritual and superficial, to the Intermediate Zone guru with their partial but imperfect and flawed realisation. Although they try to use their realisation to helpothers, they are still limited by ignorance and lower samskaras. Because of the power of the Intermediate Zone and the sincerity of devotees, the ambiguous guru genuinely does help some, but also he or she harms others. In some ways the ambiguous guru is a more misleading and deceptive teacher than the false guru, because the false guru is at least obvious in their fakeness and selfishness.
The personality of the Ambiguous Guru may or may not be highly narcissicistic. In fact an absolutely reliable way to determine if a guru is false is to look at their personality, their actions, reports of abuse, the nature of their organisation and the actions of their disciples and other followers.
 Holy Madness: Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, And Enlightenment by Georg Feuerstein; This book explores the subject of the "crazy wisdom" adept, which also includes what I would call the ambigious guru. See the crazy wisdom page for a more detailed commentary |
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False Guru Test - also applies to ambiguous gurus!
