The seekers from the west mistake Gurus are Gnanis, thus, their mission of seeking the truth is misguided by such Gurus.+

 

Manduka Upanishads: ~ No cane 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.

People give titles such as Gnani, Avatars, Sadguru, etc. merely because they do not know what these terms mean, so they just imagine. Seeker of truth must verify all such claims rationally.

No one can determine anyone by his outer appearance 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 his mind has attained.

The seekers from the west mistake  Gurus are Gnanis, thus, their mission of seeking the truth is misguided by such Gurus.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89)

There are so many people who are Godmen, Gurus, Swamis, and yogis with all their accumulated store of knowledge will not get ‘Self’- realization. The inner and outer guidance comes when there is an inner urge to know the ultimate truth.

Without the inner urge, it is impossible to get the ultimate understanding and realization. The wisdom dawns with spoon-feeding the knowledge by gurus but the seriousness and sincere effort to grasp the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Many are good at acrobatics with words, but their knowledge is egocentric. Egocentric knowledge is not ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The inner work is in progress and the realization will happen as the conviction of the formless witness grows.

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

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

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.

There is no need for a Guru, to know you and your Guru and the world in which you exist are created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Knowledge of that single stuff is the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person.

There is no need to follow anyone. There is no need to practice anything. Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’, lead to realizing the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara says: ~   There is no need to study the Scriptures, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~ then why do you indulge in studying the scriptures?

Sage Sankara says: ~There is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why do you indulge in studying philosophy?

Sage Sankara says: ~ There is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why do you indulge in rituals?

Sage Sankara says: ~There is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why do you indulge in yoga?

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani?

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real (Soul) and unreal ('I') and renunciation of the false, is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

“It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar