To have many Gurus is like being treated my many doctors simultaneously. At some point one has to decide which one to stick on to. Following different prescriptions of life is to simply confuse the body and mind. This is true in general, which is why fidelity to the Master and the Path has always been advocated by all mystics and every school of initiation advices this. It is alright to explore different fields and options before one enters a stream of education. But once one takes to it, the only reason to leave it is if there is a radical and fundamental shift in one’s aspiration and faith.
If this is true in general about the spiritual undertaking, it is even more so when one has been called upon to a path that is so different and unique in its goal and method that hobnobbing with other gurus and paths is to let oneself be pulled in quite contrary directions with all its attendant consequences. In the Integral Yoga one is asked to open to the Mother and to Her alone. There is no question of another guru.
As to the Divine versus the Master it is the ploy of a hostile Maya that draws a veil and divides them. The Divine Presence within is a truth of all creatures. But that Presence is formless. However, for the purposes of guiding and leading us along a certain stream the Divine Presence assumes a particular Form and Name so that we can approach Him through that particular angle, the Name and Form providing us a foothold, a gate to enter into the luminous infinity of the Divine through the doorway our soul has called upon. It is the Divine’s arrangement so to say, and if one leaves the Master it is either because one was not meant for this door or due to some serious error this door is temporarily unavailable. The serious error here is evidently stepping into two boats, which can eventually lead to the most grievous error, of abandoning the Master on the way.
