Guru - Notes -finding a guru

In order to assess the difficulty in finding a guru a few quotations may be interesting

Multasthu mochayethoordwam na muktho mochakaha kadham? (kulaarnava 13th Chapter)
A liberated soul liberates; how can un liberated soul help liberate?

… na moorkho moorkamuddharet
- an unliberated cannot liberate another unliberated……

Guravo bahavasanti shishyavithaapaharakaha Durllabhoyam Gururddevi Shishyasanthaapahaarakaha
(There are many gurus who steal from shishyas. Indeed it is rare to find a Guru who is capable of wiping out the sorrows of shishyas)-Malinee tantra

In the same vein it is difficult to find shishyas who have the shishyalakshanas in full and I can say with full frankness that I have had the doubt about my eligibility to be a shishya a lot of times