Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshiping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance.+

You and your physical Guru belong to the domain of duality. The duality is merely an illusion.

By emotionally sticking to physical Guru within the dualistic illusion (world) becomes a great obstacle in realizing the Self, hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshipping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance. Surrendering to your physical Guru is surrendering to ignorance.

If you are seeking truth, you have to get rid of the idea of the Guru propagated in the past by the gurus of the religious and yogic path.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.” Yogis and gurus are not Gods.

This idea of worshiping the Guru as God is not a Vedic idea but was adopted from Jainism and Buddhism.

Vedas bars human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~ "They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.":~ (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Thus, Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality.

All the Guru worships belong to religion and yoga, not Spirituality.

Sage Sankara: ~ Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread." (Select Works of Sage Sankara, also his commentary on the Brihad)

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread and belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani)

~ Then why stick to a Guru who is not a Gnani?

Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, which is the real God. Thus, Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshiping the Gurus as God, you will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

The invisible Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

The world in which you and Guru exist is the product of ignorance. If there is no ignorance, then the world in which you and your Guru exist ceases to exist as a reality.

When reality appears, this ignorance, which one thinks of as reality, becomes unreal.

The ultimate truth has to be realized first without any philosophy; only then is it possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Reality is simply the loss of ignorance. Until the ignorance is there, the body, ego, and the world exist as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes, then the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own nondual awareness. In Self-awareness, there is unity in diversity, thus, there is only oneness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar