Shanti said:
Why are you guys singling out gurus that let you down.. could you not apply this reality to everyone and anyone.. parents, children, relatives, friends, spouses.. just name it... how many here have trusted a friend.. or a sibling or a parent or spouse.. and been hurt by them... let down in ways no human should be let down.. or at least know someone who was let down by someone they trusted... This is life.. all these people who hurt us are our teaches.. they teach us some kind of truth about life.. they push us towards a path that lead us to the truth.. so if you want to discuss being hurt by someone.. don't just single out the gurus. Shanti, there are lots of good reasons why the question was asked, and good reasons why there was an attempt to answer it.
But if I am to take your own question on face value, I would say, well, none of the parents, children, relatives, friends, spouses that I know of are willing participants in instituted relationship-forms which mythologize and inflate them out of all reason, way beyond what they really are. I have no parents, children, relatives, friends or spouses that self-mythologize enormously -- I don't know if you do[
]. So if you get disappointed with the people I know of, at least you don't have a huge mythologization you have of them to get through. People who are disappointed with gurus often have to go through that.