There is no need of a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+

Q: ~ Malireddi Veeraraghavulu: Is it possible without Guru to gain knowledge of truth and how to eradicate ignorance,

Santthosh Kumaar: People who are stuck up to the idea of a physical Guru will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion.

The idea of Guru Shisya belongs to religion, not spirituality. There is no need for a Guru for acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

The seeker must personally strive by all the means of soul-centric reason to be free from the bondage of the illusory experience of the form, time, and space.

The Guru and disciple and the world in which Guru and disciple exist are created out single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth of Brahman or God in truth.

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 concepts have no value.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner.

He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone 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 can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

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

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are 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 ignorant mass in the dualistic world.

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.

That is why Swami Vivekananda 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.”

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

Religious or yogic Gurus propagate that, once a seeker identifies a Guru, he must totally surrender to the Guru and then from there onwards, the spiritual journey is fully the Guru's responsibility, not his... Hence, the importance of choosing the right Guru is necessary, but in the pursuit of truth, the Guru is not necessary, because the truth is not theoretical. Truth has to be ascertained by the seeker on his own through Soulcentric reasoning.

The one who identifies himself as a swami, a Guru or yogi, is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi. Swami, Guru, pundit or yogi,  belongs to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.

Sage Sankara's:~ “The knower of Brahman (Self-realized or Gnani) wears no signs.

Sage Sankara's:~ “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 wears no signs -- it means he does not identify himself as a Guru or a teacher. A Gnani Gives up the insignia of a monk's life means he does not belong to the religion.

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

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.

Thus, glorifying Gurus’ form is erroneous, because the body and the universe belong to the dualistic illusion. Thus indulging in glorifying and worshiping of myth becomes the greatest obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

The seeker of truth has to identify the Soul, the  Self as a Guru and proceed in his spiritual endeavor. The inner grace of the inner Guru (Soul, the Self) will guide until the ignorance disappears and one realizes  his body and the universe, are a merely  an illusion created out of the Soul which is present in the form of  consciousness

The world in which you exist, your thoughts and your world are made of single stuff. Knowledge of that single stuff is the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into waking experience and waking experience into mind and mind into consciousness by perfect understating of ‘what is what’.

When you realize’ what is what’ then you will realize everything is nothing but consciousness. There is no second thing exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar