Many people think by becoming a monk or by taking sanyasa they get Self-realization. Such an idea is a religious and yogic fable.+

Manduka Upanishads: ~ A Gnani bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

The truth-seeker need not become a sanyasi or yogi or a monk to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Many people think by becoming a monk or by taking sanyasa they get Self-realization. Such an idea is a religious and yogic fable.

Many highly educated youngsters left their families and renounced worldly life to get Self-realization.  But they are unaware of the fact that by becoming sanyasi or monk they have become the prisoner of ignorance.

Gurus are meant to propagate religion and yogis are meant to propagate yoga.  Gurus and yogis are not meant to propagate Gnana. 

Religion and yoga are based on the false self (ego) within the dualistic illusion (world) first; the seeker of truth must realize religion is not spirituality.  

Spirituality is based on the Spirit, the ultimate truth whereas religion is based on Matter the illusion.

People dwell in ignorance but think themselves wise and erudite, and take tortuous paths of sanyasa or by becoming a monk and they are like the blind led by the blind. 

They are unaware of the fact their path of sanyasa is meant for religious people. Religion is the path of ignorance. Religion keeps people permanently in ignorance. There is no escape if one is attached to religion.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The path of sanyasa is not the Atmic path. The path of sanyasa is meant for ignorant people.  Flies come and seek for the ulcer (ignorance), and bees come only for the honey (Gnana) in the flower. Do not follow the way of the fly but that of the bee.

Sage  Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal. 

Swami Vivekananda said:~ "The Vedas teach that the Soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukthi - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery." 

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and become Avadhuta and live as he wishes.

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

Sage Sankara: ~ The Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man." -Viveka Chudamani (2), (Stanza 539).

Mandukya Upanishads: ~    “Even the Gods cannot find out who is a Gnani, because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Sage Sankara writes on A Gnani: - “Sometimes he appears to be a Fool, sometimes a wise man. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

Unless one realizes the Soul as the innermost ‘Self’ as it really is” it is impossible to realize the nondualistic or Advaitic truth. 

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and become Avadhuta and live as he wishes.

The Soul, the Self is not sanyasi because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  By becoming a sanyasi is becoming more ignorant of the reality of the true existence. 

The seeker should not have an individuality complex because the Soul, the 'Self' does not reside in the body because it pervades the whole world in which he exists.

Thinking the Soul is within the body is a great error.  The seeker must rise above the form, time, and space to realize the Soul the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  

You, your body, and your experience of the world are a reality within the dualistic illusion.  The dualistic illusion is created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul, the Self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding on to the accumulated knowledge from here and there, one remains in the realm of ignorance. One has to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. 

When the seeker realizes the fact that, his ego, his body, and the world are created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness then that knowledge of the single stuff leads to Self-awareness in the midst of the duality. 

In Advaitic Self-awareness, the ego is not considered as ego, even though the ego is present, the body is not considered as the body, even though the body is present, the world which confronts him is not considered as the world even though the world is present, the duality ceases even though the duality is present, because of the wisdom everything is considered as consciousness. Thus, there is conscious oneness in the midst of diversity.

When the Soul, the  ‘Self’ remains in its own awareness it becomes empty of ignorance. Thus, whatever remains empty ignorance is the non-dualistic reality. 

Only through wisdom, one becomes aware of the Advaitic truth in the midst of the duality.

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ VC ~63~ Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation. 

The universe in which we exist will not remain a reality when wisdom dawns. The universe is a mere illusion created out of consciousness and there is a conscious awareness of the unity in diversity because there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar