10 July 2015 - QA 5

How can true divine guidance be recognized from false guidance (of self proclaimed gurus and coaches)? Isn’t the Self your true guide?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

If your intention is to find the truth, you will find it. But if your intention is to get something quickly, then you can get trapped. Whenever such scandals come out, I only say one thing, "If you put water in a pot which is not baked, neither the pot remains, nor the water. Both fall apart". And this is what happens to people who proclaim to be gurus and try to teach some techniques to people.
For sometime people get something out of it, but then eventually everything falls apart.