Question: When the disciple breaks his promises, why should the guru take the suffering for the disciple’s mistake. When it is the law of karma, that as you sow you should reap? How far is this that the merciful guru has to suffer for the mindless disciple?

Jayapataka Swami: You see the guru presents the disciple to Krsna through the guru parampara. And if the guru presents an unqualified disciple, then he will be responsible. It says that if a disciple consciously breaks a principle, he is known as a guru drohi, killer...