Being Honored as the Spiritual Practice

Whatever is branded as spiritual teaching may be treated as a person’s spiritual practice. But is that valid in every case? As history would have it, many ascetics, yogis, spiritual aspirants and devotees of so many sects, giving their time and energy to teaching others, as if these activities are the teacher’s personal practice. This is a process of making oneself available for questioning and receiving honors.

Is that valid? Is it true that a yogi, a devotee, or an aspirant on some spiritual path, does arrive at a stage where he/she need not do the discipline which caused him/her to be recognized as a spiritual teacher.

Does this mean that this guru maxed out on the process, he/she became proficient at, and to such a degree that there is no need to continue the practice personally, except maybe to set an example, because the teacher reached the culmination of the process.

What happens when a student of a spiritual process, or discipline, masters it to such a degree that he/she becomes so saturated with requests for teaching, that there is no time for selfPractice, but only for teaching and otherwise receiving honor, where that reception of honor, itself, became the teacher’s practice.

Then the teacher travels here and there, physically and psychically, just receiving honor as the master of his teachings. Is that merely misleading? Is it a distraction?