Modern Gurus
Many of our ancient scripts seems to have the instruction to share the knowledge to only the worthy ones. I think this was partly so the knowledge do not get to wrong hands. Also, the pattern of guru → chela (teacher → student) makes the knowledge passing/sharing more structured and proper.
But, in modern time, this has caused two major problem.
- Knowledge at extinct
- Rise of modern Gurus
Knowledge at extinct
The ancient structure of structured learning is coming to an end. It’s hard to find a guru who is in the path of spiritual finding, doing the meditation and teaching his/her followers. This is only seen in textbooks now. With this, passing of important knowledge from past generation to now is thinning at a greater scale. On top of that, specific instructions such as “not to pass these knowledge without proper guru” has made the problem worse.
Rise of modern Gurus
With everything moving to digital age, Gurus has transformed too, which is good. But has the knowledge sharing been the same? I doubt it. The basis of knowledge sharing has become more of a business now. People seeking the knowledge needs monetary source in order to be able to acquire knowledge. This is not how ancient knowledge passing was. Dedication of the student used to be the main virtue, not the money. Who is more worthy to acquire knowledge?
If these Gurus were modern, they would ask followers(wanna-be -students/practitioner/learner) to send them 1 email, same time of the day, for 100 days straight, to see how dedicated they are, instead of linking each of their website pages with credit card info. They are not gurus that adapted to modern times, they are modern gurus, thats all.
