Dear everyone,
Thank you for sharing. I would just like to share my thoughts on why many students may like to do Guru hopping. It is because they don't like to face themselves. A lot of them, including many of us, only like to hear praises from our Guru, and when being criticized, they immediately put up a defensive mode and reject the criticism and let anger arises which stop them from advancing.
One MUST understand that it is the duty of a Guru to guide us to overcome our bad habituations, be they thoughts or actions. So as students, we MUST be open to criticism and accept them and CONTINUE to improve and work to a higher level.
So when one is ready to engage into a Guru-student relationship, one
1) Must be loyal and stay on the path and listen to the guru's instructions without any deviations.
2) Must stay on the path without being influenced by others
3) Must shoulder all assignments given to us by the Guru
4) Must endure any hardships and difficulties when carrying out the assignments
5) Must obey and hold no grudges against the Guru
6) Must renounce self pride and regards ourselves as inferior to the Guru, in other words, be humble.
7) Must hold onto our assignments like a rope, accomplish the tasks irrespective of its heaviness and difficulties
Must never respond with anger even when the guru ridicules, ignores or irritates you
9) Must carry out the assignments without any unhappiness, no matter how mundane the assignments may seem
If one can keep these in heart, then we are really putting ourselves in our Guru's mandala.
Cheers!