Sanyasa is a great hindrance in the path of wisdom.+

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread belong 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 the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Sage Sankara in Viveka Chudamani (2), states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

It means the Gurus, Swamis, and Yogis who identify themselves as holy people are not Gnanis.

Those who are seeking truth need not follow any Guru or any teaching.

The one who thinks of himself as a Guru and the one who thinks of himself as a chela (disciple) will not be able to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because both of them accepted themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, and knowledge are based on the false self (ego or you). Therefore, the Guru –Shisya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

A Gnani never accepts himself as a Guru nor accepted anyone as his disciple because he was fully aware that Guru and disciple and the world are merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self.

Remember:~

Renouncing the worldly life and accepting sanyasa or monkhood means the incapacity to think deeper, impotency to inquire and reason. 

There is no need to walk in the mountains in search of the truth.

There is no need to meet any Gurus.

There is no need to renounce family life.

There is no need to study the scriptures.

There is no need for glorifying the Gurus.

There is no need to spend the fortune to please the Gurus.

Going to the mountains, searching for a Guru, renouncing the family life, studying the scriptures, and glorifying the personal Gods and Gurus are the greatest obstacle on the path of wisdom.

One need not be a monk, a sanyasi, or a swami to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Religious rituals and scriptural mastery, are not a qualification to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Monkhood and sanyasa are the greatest obstacles in truth-realization, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Remember:~

People speak of getting rid of the conditioning or samskara, but they, themselves are unaware of the fact that the universe in which they exist is the product of the inborn samskara or conditioning. Ignorance is the cause of the inborn samskara or conditioning which is present as ‘I’.

The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness. Physical awareness is not ‘Self’-awareness. Self–awareness is when the   Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness remains aware of its own non-dual true nature. 

Remember:~

A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced ignorance. For Gnani the world is an illusion. Viewed from the absolute there's neither birth nor life nor death, neither appearance nor disappearance, neither production nor destruction, neither bondage nor liberation. None seeks for freedom nor is there any who is liberated - this is the highest truth.

The seeker should not go to the extremity of renouncing worldly life by accepting the sanyasa or monkhood. The seeker should not neglect his family and worldly duties. Sanyasa is a religious or yogic fable.

By becoming sanyasi, one will not get Mukthi but he will remain in the prison of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Sanyasa is a great hindrance in the path of wisdom.

Sanyasa is not the means to Self- realization. He must live and work in the practical world like any other householder. He must begin an inquiry into truth through reason.

Renouncing the worldly life and accepting sanyasa or monk-hood means incapacity to think deeper, impotency to inquire and reason.

In these three states, everything is subject to change, yet the three states are pervaded by the Soul is the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness.

Seeker of truth has to practice mental renunciation of the three states and be strong in his conviction that, the Soul is the  Self. The seeker has to realize whatever is perceived within the waking experience is on the base of ‘I’ as the Self is merely an illusion.

The three states are of the nature of change. There is no permanence in them. However, that which sustains the three states is never changing. It is always the same. That is the Soul, the Self. 

From the Soul, the Self, everything rests. It is as a movie projected on a screen. The movie changes, but the screen is constant. Similarly, the phenomenal waking or the dream projected on the Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness. In deep sleep, the Soul remains without any projection. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar