Sage Sankara : ~ “It is the very nature of the Gnanis to be always exerting themselves of their own accord towards removing others ignorance."+

People who think by worshiping their Gurus as God in human form to get Self-realization are unaware of the fact that, accepting someone as Guru and himself as a disciple is the greatest obstacle in the path of truth.

The person who accepts himself as a Guru is not a Gnani because he has already accepted his ego as the real Self whereas the real Self is not the ego but the real Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The person who accepts himself as a disciple of some Guru also considers himself as the Self thus; it becomes a great hindrance in the path of truth. Guru is essential in the religious and yogic path but not in the path of wisdom.      

One must study the wisdom propagated by Gnanis   very deeply and try to attain the same realization which he had, rather than spend their energies by indulging in glorifying and worship his form.

As per the scripters worshiping human form leads on to darkness.  The main aim of human life is to acquire self-knowledge.

Religious literature of Hinduism one finds many such aphorisms as ' there is no higher deity than the Guru', 'the Guru is the ultimate Truth and Deity; 'God and  Avatars (incarnations) are secondary to the Guru in importance;  ' there is no higher refuge, no higher target, no higher destination than the Guru '; ' the Guru is God Himself '; ' God and the Guru are one, he who makes a distinction between the Guru and God is ignorant; and scores of similar others. They abound both in Sanskrit and in modern Indian languages.  Some celebrated philosopher-Saints also like Jnandev, Eknath and so many others all over India have offered their first salutations and importance to the Guru in their various books but all the saints belong to the religion.

GURUR BRAHM GURUR VISHNU GURUR DEVO MAHESHVARAH, GURUH

SAKASHATH  PARAM BRAHM TASMAI SRI GURAVE NAMAH.

Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time

Vedas bar human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~

Translation:~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."- (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Many people are stuck to the idea that without a Guru, Truth -realization is impossible. Guru is only a religious fable. They do not even know that the Guru teaches, is the truth.

Gurus themselves dwelling in darkness preach their way is the only way and the followers of the gurus follow the dualistic path like the blind led by the blind.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

Remember:~

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

All those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa's disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your Soul.

Remember:~

The Upanishads are the only scriptures in the world that declare: ~ It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and scriptural study.

If Sage Sankara has declared the world is myth Brahman alone is real then it is time for everyone to overcome ignorance and realize the truth to realize what Sage Sankara said was the truth or not.

It is time for the reform of human society free from dogmas and superstition. With nagging orthodox parents trying to impose their orthodox ideas on their children staying in the Self-imposed prison of orthodoxy without realizing they themselves are on the wrong path and they think they are on the right path to Moksha.

The orthodox people live in the prison of ignorance.

Orthodox people expect their clan to follow a certain outdated religious code of conduct (Shastras) and live dogmatically following the traditional lifestyle. Those who followed the orthodoxy are favored and others are condemned they are thinking they are going to get Moksha by doing this act. Their chosen path is meant for the ignorant populace who have a sheepish mentality blindly accepting the inherited dogmas.

It is high time to stop judging who is right and who is wrong in this unreal world instead spend the same time acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to realize the world(samsara) is unreal the Brahman alone is real.

It is high time for the educated orthodox followers to realize their religion-based orthodox path was meant for the ignorant populace in the past, therefore, it is not suited for the modern mindset.

According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know Brahman. Thus, the Purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the Jnana Kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

The orthodox seekers are the ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices.

When Sage Sankara says the world is an illusion, it includes birth, life, and death, which happens within the world. Thus the seeker's main aim is to mentally trace the formless substance of the illusion, which is also the witness of the illusion. The formless substance and witness of the illusion (world), is the Atman, and this Atman itself is Brahman.

All desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices are of the dualistic illusion. Therefore, heaven and other pleasures are nothing but imagination based on the false self within the false experience. All the result of rituals, sacrifices is nothing but a myth propagated by the belief system.

It is time to stop imposing their inherited ideas on the children, which block their reasoning power believing all the myths propagated in the past by the belief system as truth. The path of the wisdom of Sage Sankara is most suited for the modern mindset. The orthodox religious Advaitic path is nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Getting stuck with the religious path is getting stuck with ignorance. Getting stuck with ignorance is getting stuck with dualistic illusion or Maya.

Getting stuck with the dualistic illusion or Maya is accepting the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. Thus, people who want freedom or Moksha right here right now must that is in this very life and this very world must follow the Soulcentric path of wisdom.

Remember:~

Most people think he wears a yellow robe and his perpetual silences and his yogic activities and his monkish lifestyle but they do not judge by asking "Is what he says true?”

The Atmic method is to discriminate between real and unreal and drop the unreal by realizing the real.

Many swamis suffer from the insanity of the exaggerated dualistic egocentricity. "I want to distinguish myself from others" is their idea, and so they go about naked or else travel gorgeously on elephants or sit in tiger skin. From the Advaitic perspective, all this indicates a lack of mental balance.

It is not possible to determine whether he be a Sage or fool, scoundrel or good character; therefore we can only draw inferences from his actions as to what status and character he has attained.

People give titles to mystics "Gnani, Maharishi, Avatars, Sadguru, etc. merely because they do not know what these terms mean, so they just imagine. All the titles belong to the Body no tile can be given to the Soul, the Self, which is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Brihadaranyakopanishad: ~ "The knower of Brahman wears no signs."

A Gnani is free from all these titles because he does not identify himself as a holy man.

When you know Atman you know at what stage a man is, why he acts in certain ways what are his capacities for imagination, his motives, etc.

A Gnani is really measured not by what he appears to be, nor by what he does, not even by what he says, but by what he shares as truth.

Sage Sankara in Vivekachoodamani: ~ “It is the very nature of the Gnanis to be always exerting themselves of their own accord towards removing others ignorance."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The track of the men of knowledge(Gnanis) is as invisible as that of the birds in the sky."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The very Gods are stupefied in their attempts to find out the man that has realized the All and is engaged in doing good to all creatures, seeking the final refuge. (Brahman)

Of whom the many have no chance to even hear, whom many cannot know, though they have heard or seen.

Ashtavakra Samhita:~ "The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state. 

The Guru is not needed to realize the Self. The knowledge arises from within. The real Self is prior to the idea “I” which is the beginning of all of the apparent manifestation. As the levels of mistaken understanding are whittled away, this truth can reach out, as it were, and clear away the final barrier of the ego itself.

Yoga Vasishtha says: - Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only through enquiry inspired by the company of wise and holy men. One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with his fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar