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make a bargain with him. This is all for a 'business' that you have to draw up a “contract' with him by telling him, “From today onwards I embrace you in my heart as my guru.” Once you have established him as your guru, you are considered to have laid the foundation, and once that is done, it is a sin to destroy it. Do not lay a foundation otherwise. In the Lords words, do not lay a foundation, and if you do, then you must not destroy it.
If there is anyone that knows how to make a guru, it is the Khojas (ethnic group of Shia Muslims). If your guru were to get married, not even married, but if he interfered with someone, you would all gang up on him and keep beating him. Whereas when the Aga Khan (hereditary title of Imam -high priest- of followers of the Shia faith) married a European lady, they all celebrated his marriage. That is called a true disciple. You should not see faults in your guru. You can look at other people's faults, but do not see faults in your guru; otherwise do not make him your guru. Where religion is concerned, the one who eradicates mistakes is considered God. You must not find faults in anyone; it is a grave liability to do so.
Do you know what Sahajanand Swami (The Godhead of the Swaminarayan religion in the Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism) discovered? ‘The guru is the fifth doom.' If you see even the slightest fault in your guru, then you are doomed! And should you happen to see anything negative about him, you should tell yourself, “No, that is not so' and then close your eyes. Otherwise, all the living beings (jiva) will fall (out of grace). Only the followers of Aga Khan have remained protected. Just look! Has anyone amongst them ever complained? And if our people were his disciples, they would judge him in so many ways.
I am not asking you to worship (aradhana) a guru, but do not speak negatively (viradhana) about him. However, if
