My Guru has Ego (=Mara)

Lots of people from different religious backgrounds tell me that their spiritual gurus, teachers,pastors, ministers or monks have a big ego. The biggest detriment to the status of a spiritual guru is that he has a big ego. Everybody has ego, as long as they are unenlightened. Yet, spiritual gurus are not excused for having a big ego. It is an inherent human tendency that consciously or unconsciously a guru inclines to get overpowered by ego. Ego is an internal "Mara." The more revered a guru becomes, the humbler he or she must be.

If not, a guru's fall from spirituality is ANY TIME POSSIBLE, and I have seen this happen. It is a spiritual disaster, when a guru falls from his sainthood.