Gnani will live according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a cab driver or a King.+

Even friends and family members of a Gnani will not know him as the Gnani. Due to ignorance, people will not be able to recognize a Gnani. Outwardly the Gnani behaves as an ordinary person behaves.

A Gnani talks and jokes like others, but he is not understood as he really is. People may regard him as an exceptional person, but only a few can recognize him as a Gnani. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

A Gnani sees the unity behind the differences and considers the form, time and space are one in essence.

Both Gnani and ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them.

Gnanis are one in millions for they have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search of truth and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, all authorities until they could be proved to be true.

Manduka Upanishads:~ It is very 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.

A Gnani cannot have the idea of giving up, or 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 billionaire, 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.

Gnani will live according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a cab driver or a King.

Gnanis do not perform miracles to attract attention to the truth because they are fully aware of the fact that, the universe in which they exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

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 then he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is good, from the practical point of view, and what is real and what is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint. :

A Gnani is the fountainhead of Soulcentric knowledge. A Gnani is a rational thinker.

A Gnani will not be so foolish as to argue with an irrational man; the latter will put great warmth of feeling into his words, whereas the other will remain cool and calm-headed, not wasting his time in attempting to reason with someone who is incapable of reasoning calmly, but can only rationalize his emotions.

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A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience is merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own. It is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is the witness. The Soul the witness is nothing to do with the three states, because it is merely the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. :

If you are trying to become a Guru or Monk then you are unfit to acquire Self-knowledge. Someone posing as a Gnani because he is some Gurus’ direct disciple cannot be a Gnani.

Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis. A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu or a yogi, or some Guru’s disciple.

Different Gurus and teachers are pointing out the understanding of the Advaitic truth from different standpoints. All such understanding of Advaita is on a dualistic perspective accumulated from here and there.

Gnani is neither a Sanyasi, nor swami, nor a guru, nor a yogi. He is above all stages.

Sage  Sankara  states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man." 

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

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

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

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani, he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others.

Advaita is not a theory or a philosophy. Advaita is the nature of the Soul the innermost Self. There is no need for any theory or philosophy or scriptures to acquire Self-knowledge. Only a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

Sage Sankara:~ 'Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the Veda to that person. What is the Veda? ~ utterances of those who have known the Truth. Here is one who has known the Truth; why should he or she depend upon the Veda further? Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration. The Upanishad itself says that the 'words are only so much of distraction for such minds'

Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

You need not become a Guru or a monk to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. You do not have to renounce the world or leave anything ~ your wife, children, job, or responsibilities. 

You need not renounce anything! The only thing you have to realize is the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space by realizing the form, time and space are the product of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes, the unreality of form, time, and space is exposed.

Upanishads say:~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e. no Gnana.

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).:~Santthosh Kumaar