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 Gnana.+

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 accept themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, and knowledge are based on the false self.

Whatever is based on the false self (ego) is based on a dualistic perspective. Whatever is based on the dualistic perspective is based on imagination. And imagination is not truth.

The Guru–Shishya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth. That is why Gnanis never accepted themselves as a Guru or accepted anyone as their disciple, because he is fully immersed in Self-awareness

There is no place for two in the Atmic reality. For Gnani, there is no division in his consciousness, even though he is in the midst of the illusory division of form, time, and space.

Surrendering to any physical Guru or God-men is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The concept of surrendering to the Guru is a religious fable. The religious path is not the Atmic path.

The Soul, the Self, is the true Guru. The seeker has to surrender to the Self by realizing that the Self is not the ‘I’ but the ‘Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

By realizing the Self is not the ‘I’, but the ‘Self is the invisible Soul he will be able to drop all the accumulated knowledge and inherited conditioning in the midst of duality, and he finds freedom from experiencing the duality (waking) as a reality.

There is only oneness in reality. There is no scope for the duality in Advaitic reality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar