1. Self advertisement

2. Dress code and conduct deviating from the traditional scriptures.

Eg. Wearing expensive silky garments, staying in hotels, conducting classes in hotel banquet halls and convention halls.

3. Charges for the services. Our Hindu system allows no fixed pre determined charges. It allows post service Honararium called dakshanai depends on the benificiaries ability and satisfaction.

4. Hook up free darshans and classes saying there are special darshans and classes for the paid people.

5. Active fund collection for services.

6. Running hospitals, schools, colleges, universities, orphanages, elderly homes by themselves as tools to show off and collect funds.

7. Promoting their institutions and charities while discouraging individual dharma and other local charities.

8. Discourage or even prohibit visiting, meeting, interacting or associating with similar or other spiritual individuals, Gurus, or organizations.

9. Totalistic claims.

10. Claims of avatar or incarnation of God. Why do they beg and collect fund from us. No avatar in the history did these.

குருட்டினை நீக்கும் குருவினைக் கொள்ளார்

குருட்டினை நீக்காக் குருவினைக் கொள்வார்

குருடுங் குருடும் குருட்டாட்டம் ஆடிக்

குருடுங் குருடும் குழிவிழு மாறே .

– திருமந்திரம்

By Dr. Ramanathan Lambotharan (MD)