All the Guru Parampara is for religious people. There is no need for a Guru who wants to tread the of path of wisdom..
Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa's disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, and none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”
There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman. The Guru and guru paramparas are meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, there is no need to follow any parampara and follow any Guru for those who wish to realize the truth which is beyond form, time, and space.
We should not mix religion with spirituality because religion is based on the ego and spirituality is based on the Soul. Religion is concerned with its paramparas, not truth whereas spirituality is concerned only with the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. Religion is not spirituality.
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.
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)
Remember:~
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 a need to spend a fortune to please the gurus.
Going to the mountains, searching for a guru, renouncing family life, studying the scriptures, and glorifying the personal Goon and Gurus are the greatest obstacle in the path of Self-realization.
One need not be a monk a sanyasi or a swami to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Religious orthodoxy and scriptural mastery are not qualifications to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Monkhood and sanyasa is the greatest obstacle in the pursuit of truth.
Guru, Swami, Yogi, Sadhu, and Avatar belong to religious paths. The religious path is the path meant for the ignorant who blindly accept their experience the birth, life, death, and the world as real because the universe is the product of ignorance.
When wisdom dawns then the unreal nature of the universe is exposed. Thus, whatever experiences take place within the universe are bound to be a falsehood.
Guru, Swami, Yogi, Sadhu, and Avatara have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman because they are based on the false self (ego or the waking entity) and false experience (waking).
Path of wisdom is only for those who are seriously in search of ultimate truth or Brahman. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is the mother of all knowledge thus it is not accumulated knowledge.
Sage Sankara:~ VC Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (6)
It is clear that liberation cannot be the result of good works, for Sruti itself declares that there is no hope for immortality by means of wealth. (7)
Actions help to purify the mind but they do not, by themselves, contribute to the attainment of Reality. The attainment of Reality is brought about only by Self Inquiry and not in the least by even ten million acts. (11)
The fear and sorrow created by the delusory serpent in the rope can be ended only after fully ascertaining the truth of the rope through steady and balanced thinking. (12)
Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us knowledge about our own Self. The firm experience of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)
Ultimate success in spiritual endeavors depends chiefly upon the qualifications of the seeker. Auxiliary conveniences such as time And place all have a place indeed, but they are essentially secondary. (14)
He alone is considered qualified to enquire after the supreme Reality, who has discrimination, detachment, qualities of Calmness, etc., and a burning desire for liberation. The four-fold qualifications (17)
Great sages have spoken of four qualifications for attainment which, when present, succeed in the realization of Brahman and In the absence of which the goal is not attained. (18)
(While enumerating the qualifications), first, we count the ability to discriminate between the Real and the unreal; next comes a spirit of detachment from the enjoyment of the fruits of actions here and hereafter; after that is the groups of six virtues beginning with Calmness, and the last is undoubtedly an intense desire for liberation. (19)
A firm conviction that Brahman alone is Real and the phenomenal World is unreal is known as discrimination between the Real and The Unreal. (20)
They have crossed the dreadful ocean of (embodied) existence through their own efforts and without any (personal) motives; they help others to cross it. (37)
The ignorant think that the Self is the waking entity (ego) and perceives the world without being aware of the fact that the three states are mere illusory experiences created out of consciousness. Thus, they try to judge the truth on the false entity (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking).
Until one makes sure of the true self, it is erroneous to judge and conclude the ultimate truth on mere intellectualism. Thus one has to make sure of the fact that the Self is neither the waking entity, nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is the Soul or consciousness, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
A Gnani has a firm conviction that the “Self” is definitely neither the waking entity nor the dream entity because the waking and dream both are illusory. The Self is the Soul or consciousness. Consciousness is existence and knowledge.
Illusion’s "concealing power" merely means that when one looks at an ice block he thinks only of the ice block. But a Gnani will think of the substance of the ice block too. That is a wise man has the knowledge of the substance plus of the ice block. Similarly, a Gnani has the knowledge of the universe and its formless substance also. Consciousness is concealed because of ignorance.
As a man, one is not aware of the fact that his body, ego, and his experience of the world are mere mirages created out of consciousness.
When one becomes aware of the fact that, the universe is merely an illusion then there is no physical body no ego and no world then there is only the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.
One has to get the firm conviction that, the Self is definitely not the waking entity, because the waking experience itself is an illusion. The Self is the formless substance and the witness of the three states.
The formless substance and witness is the Soul or consciousness. The Soul, the Self, or consciousness.
The Soul, the Self is without change, without any form, without any blemish, without any decay, without the disease, beyond all comprehension, beyond any change and consciousness is all-pervading.
The Soul, the Self is without properties, and without any activity; the Self is permanent, forever free, and imperishable.
The Soul or consciousness is the subject. All three states are an object to the formless subject. And the three states are but the transient experience.
The witness of the three states is the Soul, the Self. The Soul (witness), is unaffected by the individual experiences happening within the waking or dream because it can never be lost or lose anything in itself.
Thus nothing is lost or gained because everything is consciousness. Therefore, Gnani sees only consciousness in everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus for Gnani, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.
It is not as if something that was not consciousness suddenly becomes consciousness. Rather, "knowing the truth” means the removal of ignorance about one's own existence as consciousness. Thus, to "know the truth” is to "be the consciousness."
The consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, you and the world, in which you exist cease to exist.
Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proof. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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