One of the greatest dangers pertaining to the spiritual path is blind faith and making a graven image of one’s Teacher. This danger is often neglected due to devotion being one of the virtues on the spiritual path. However there are two types of devotion. One leads to fanaticism, separatism and hypocrisy. The other is recognizing the Universal Truth in the teachings that leads to spiritual progress. There is a very thin line between these two types of Devotion.

“Everyone has within himself some kind of Yoga, even if only in a rudimentary stage or in a distorted form. People can be classified not only according to the elements, but also according to Yogas. Often in a hypocrite you find a perversion of Bhakti Yoga; in an overbearing athlete, Hatha Yoga; in a zealot, Raja Yoga; and in a bigot, Jnana Yoga.”

– Agni Yoga, 166.

Today blindly devoted yogis often end up creating a graven image of their teacher. They start praying to their teacher and invoke their teacher to solve their daily life problems, ask blessings for material riches, ask their teacher while making decisions etc. Esoterically speaking, all this is masked materialism of the lowest form. We all know from the teachings that Holy Masters are very busy people. There have the work of leading the suffering humanity to light. There are in constant battle with the dark forces. Many of these Masters are working day and night in different departments of humanity including and not limited to Education, Science, Economy, Politics etc. They hardly have any time for personal life problems of so called chelas. Invoking Great Masters with self seeking motives is thus nothing but blasphemy. H.P Blavatsky a direct disciple of one such holy Master warned us about this in her letter.