These servants of Ravana are really jokers! Guru Retreat on an annual basis! Its my humble conclusion that these false gurus and false GBC have enrolled the infamous list of atheistic philosophers so widely condemned by Srila Prabhupada and the Vedas.
Their whole mentality springs from the desire to be God and therefore they are condemned by the laws of nature for their severe offenses by bringing down the sacred and infallible guru position to the level of retreat lovers.
The bona fide guru doesn't need any seminar or retreat to become bona fide. To conclude that the bona fide spiritual master is God is something sinister and atheistic,similarly,to conclude that the bona fide spiritual master is subjected to the rules and conditions of a higher authority is the worst type of atheism and the greatest insult to the unalloyed disciplic succession.
Making the position of guru as something relative and not absolute is highly sinister.Only greedy and envious men can reach to those conclusions.
your servant,
Raghunatha Bhatta dasa