Manduka Upanishads:~ Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with a Gnani+.

A Gnani is free from ignorance beholds the majesty of the Soul, the Self, achieves Soul awareness, and becomes free from experiencing the form, time, and space as a reality.

Manduka Upanishads:~ A Gnani, bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

A Gnani cannot have the idea of giving up, renouncing the world or some object or person in the world, because that would connote the idea of duality. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.

A Gnani, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billniore, he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion.

It is not correct to say that, a Gnani sees only good everywhere and never evil. He is fully aware of the evil things, he knows when he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is a good practical point of view and what is real and what is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

Remember:~

A Gnani is Self-realized. He is fully aware of the fact that the Soul, the Self is hidden by the ‘I’, the dualistic illusion.

By having coiled hair, one will not become a Gnani. By wearing a religious robe one will not get Gnana. By studying under a famous guru, one cannot get rid of ignorance. Scriptural mastery one will not get Advaitic wisdom. By taking sanyasa or monkhood, one is not qualified to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

All the holy men, gurus, Saints, and yogis belong to the religious path, which is meant for the ignorant populace. The Atmic path is nothing to do with religion. Those who are seriously searching for truth have to take the Atmic path, not the religious or yogic path.

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

Sage Sankara in his work The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (1) states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Sage Sankara writes on Gnani: ~ “Sometimes he appears to be a Fool, sometimes a wise man. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

A man who has not turned away from the state of ignorance who does not have patience and humility, who only indulges in questioning, argument, and provoking cannot attain Self-realization.

Unless one realizes the Soul as the innermost ‘Self ‘as it really is” it is impossible to realize the Advaitic truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar