Rememember that the Soul, the Self is the Guru that helps you to get revealation from the inner core of your existence.+

No Guru can save you, work out your own salvation.  Have only one idea that the Soul, the Self is the Guru that helps you to get revelation from the inner core of your existence. 

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.”

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 belong to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.   

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 a need to highlight how they become an obstacle to 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 Atma Gnana. 

Do not search for Guru in the world in which you exist.  Guru is the innermost Self. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

As the truth of the ‘Self is hidden by the ‘I’ it requires its extraction, competent instruction, excavation, and the removal of ignorance.

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People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything else other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such mindsets are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth nothing but the uncontradictable truth.

The transparent truth of the Self is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The transparent truth of the Self is to be attained through constantly reading, reasoning, and reflecting on the Advaitic words of wisdom followed by reflection, meditation, and so forth, but not through perverted discussion and arguments.

All the penances are external because they are based on individuality. Investigating the mind alone leads to Self-realization.

Knowing what is the mind profits much rather than searching for the truth in the external world moving from one ashram to another one Guru to another and one mountain to another. When one starts investigating the universe that confronts him, one will mentally move inwards and will reach the ultimate end and become fully aware of “What is the truth?” and “What is untruth?” in his own home or city and establish in truth by realizing what is the untruth.

Nothing is real but the Soul. Nothing Matters but love for the Soul. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is everywhere and pervades everything in the domain of form, time, and space. The Soul is hidden within the form, time, and space and it is beyond the form, time, and space. The Soul alone is and the form, time and space are merely an illusion.

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 accepted themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, and knowledge are based on the false self(ego).  

 Therefore, the Guru–Shisya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth.  That is why Gnanis never accepted himself as a Guru or accepted anyone as his disciple because Gnani is fully immersed in Self-awareness.  There is no place for two in reality. There was no division in Gnani’s consciousness even though he is in the midst of a dualistic illusion or Maya.    

By surrendering to any physical Guru or Godmen, is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   The concept of surrendering to Guru is a religious fable. The religious path is not the path of truth or Brahman. 

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

A Gnani will never force anyone to accept the path of wisdom. He will constantly bring the seeker back to the fact of his inherent perfection and encourage him to seek the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. 

A Gnani knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you.  A Gnani continuously shares Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana with like-minded fellow seekers. 

Sage  Sankara's commentary:- Page 489: "The knower of Brahman (Self-realized or Gnani) wears no signs. 

Page 500 asks in effect "Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482: 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. 

The Soul, the Self, is the true Guru. The Seeker has to surrender to the Self by realizing the fact that, the Self is not physical but the Self is the Soul, the Spirit. 

By realizing the Self is the Soul, the Spirit, he will be able to drop all the accumulated knowledge and inherited conditioning in the midst of waking experience and he finds freedom from experiencing the duality (waking) as reality. There is only oneness in reality. There is no scope for duality in Advaitic reality.  

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, a Yogi, or some Guru’s disciple

The personal God and Guru are part of the illusory world; therefore the devotee and disciple are also part of the dualistic illusion or Maya Accepting the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality, is accepting the illusion as reality. Accepting the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality is the cause of ignorance.

The one who accepts himself as Guru and the one who accepts himself as a disciple accepted the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality.

The dualistic illusion of Maya makes one feel, that he is an individual separate from the world. This separation makes one feel the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality.  Therefore those who are without the guru or without becoming the disciple of some guru will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion or Maya to nondualist reality. :~Santthosh Kumaar