If you are seeking the truth nothing but the truth then keep away from this Guru/ disciple business.+

If you are seeking the truth, nothing but the truth, then keep away from this Guru and disciple business. How do you know your Guru knows the truth? Simply because many people follow their Gurus, you also follow.

The invisible Soul is the Sadguru. A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The truth will start revealing on its own when your conviction of the invisible Soul, the Self, becomes firm in your subconscious. For that, you must read, reflect, and reason on my blogs and postings constantly. You have one pointed agenda is to realize the invisible Soul, the Self hidden by the illusory world in which you exist.

If you are seeking truth, then you have to do a deeper self-search to realize the truth that is hidden by the world in which you exist. It is only the Soul, the inner Guru, who will walk with you to the goal, for the invisible Soul is the goal.

Yoga Vasistha says: ~ Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia. There is no need to condemn Gurus, but there is need highlight how they become an obstacle in realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ A wise man, having realized Brahman as his Self, should keep his higher intuitive faculty (prajna) united with Brahman. He should not oppress his mind with many words, for they are a mere waste of energy’. It has been clearly told in the Shruti: ‘Know that One and give up other talks’ (Mundaka Upanishad)

The seeker must know the difference between the Guru and a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru, a Yogi, or a disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

A Gnani wears no signs, which means he does not identify himself as Guru, teacher, or swami.

Sage Sankara: ~ On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."

When the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs, it means he does not identify himself as a Guru, a yogi, a teacher, or a Swami.

By identifying as a Guru or some Guru’s disciple keeps one in the cage of the ignorance. A person who identifies himself as a guru or disciple will never be able to get Advaitic Gnana.

Guru, disciple concept is meant for the religious and yogic path. In the Atmic path, the Guru and disciple concept has no value.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru, a Yogi, or a disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state.

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.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work. The one who realizes Brahman becomes a Gnani. A Gnani would be there to show the way to freedom from experiencing the duality as reality. A Gnani does not identify himself as Guru, swami, yogi, or sadhu.

The truth seeker seeks only truth. The inner Sage will guide you with love. Your sincerity and seriousness lead you to your inner core. The sincere and serious seekers are not excluded.

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 are you sticking with a Guru who is not a Gnani?

That is why Swami Vivekananda, who was a disciple of Sage Ramakrishna Paramahansa himself, said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.”

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread and belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Katha Upanishads: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. (II -23-P-20)

All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality. All the seekers of truth are chosen ones. All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality. :~ Santthosh Kumaar