Why do gurus fall down?

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"Advaita Acarya, My spiritual master, should never accept charity from

rich men or kings, because if a spiritual master accepts money or grains

from such materialists his mind becomes polluted.

PURPORT

It is very risky to accept money or food from materialistic persons, for

such acceptance pollutes the mind of the charity's recipient. According

to the Vedic system, one should give charity to sannyasis and brahmanas

because one who thus gives charity becomes free from sinful activities.

Formerly, therefore, brahmanas would not accept charity from a person

unless he were very pious. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave this

instruction for all spiritual masters. Materialistic persons who are not

inclined to give up their sinful activities like illicit sex,

intoxication, gambling and meat-eating sometimes want to become our

disciples, but, unlike professional spiritual masters who accept

disciples regardless of their condition, Vaisnavas do not accept such

cheap disciples. One must at least agree to abide by the rules and

regulations for a disciple before a Vaisnava acarya can accept him. In

fact, a Vaisnava should not even accept charity or food from persons who

do not follow the rules and regulations of the Vaisnava principles.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Adi 12.50

 

If we analyze all the fallen gurus from this perspective, how many were

eating foodstuffs raised by karmis? How many were eating foodstuffs

raised by devotees? How many were living on capital generated by

karmis? How many were living on capital generated by devotees(not

merely transfered from karmis by devotees)?

 

In other words, which were living based on VAD and which weren't? Not

in theory, but in reality; the reality of when they sat down at the

table (or on the floor in the case of any gurus who still act like

sannyasis) was the foodstuffs raised by devotees.