Manduka Upanishads:~ It is difficult to find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him. +

The one who says he is enlightened is not a Gnani. The Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. How can you and the world in which you exist remain when the Self gets enlightenment? Only the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Select Works of Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

Manduka Upanishads:~ It is difficult to find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Thus, those who identify themselves as a swami, a Guru, or a yogi are not Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi. The Swami, Guru, pundit, or the yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path, not to the path of wisdom.

That is why Sage Sankara's commentary:~ Page 489: "The knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs.

Page 500 asks in effect, "Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior." When the knower of Brahman wears no signs ~ it means he does not identify himself as a Guru.

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

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. Know the ‘Self’, not ‘you’, and what is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space will be disclosed to you.

The feat of a Guru, touching people and thus putting them into mystic states, is purely a physical or, at best, a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions, it has nothing to do with epistemology, with the question of truth.

The truth is not physical because the ultimate truth is the invisible Soul or the Spirit. : : ~ Santthosh Kumaar