Possible Clues:

• Teacher abroad starts to see work as minor irritant
• Crawled to one's guru?
• I first crawled, perhaps, to religious teacher
• Person with answers
• Crawled before one religious teacher
• Someone who's a mystic Indian, primarily
• Crawled, perhaps, before one religious leader
• Religious instructor crawled in front of unit
• Religious instructor went through sea to island
• Term of respect to a Hindu teacher