The spiritual teacher is nothing like the teacher we encounter in schools or colleges. The role of the spiritual teacher isn't to give you information. Rather it's to give you a chisel and then cram you into a difficult corner so you can sculpt yourself out of it.
In this, you are the tool and you are the subject, and you cannot become anything without literally hammering and digging into yourself, and shedding parts of yourself.
Many people raise their hands and say "I am ready", virtually all of them are not. If you are truly ready and truly understand what this entails, you will be saying it with trepidation, not with gusto.
Most of those who pose socially as spiritual teachers are neither, and this isn't about them. The true teacher only appears when you are ready, and appears where you least expect. If you want a true teacher, become a true student, and patiently wait.
Most of the time the true spiritual teacher does not appear in the mold of the socially or culturally accepted image of piety. That social image of piety is frequently, although not always, egotistical, and hence ignorant and harmful. If you find it important, you are not ready.
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