A Gnani is not a Guru or disciple of any Guru. Guru and disciple business is Only applicable in the religious and yogic path.+

A Gnani never identifies himself as Gnani. A Gnani shares only Gnana. A Gnani is the fountainhead of Gnana.

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.

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

A Gnani cannot have the idea of giving up, or renouncing the world or some object or person in the world, because that would connote the idea of duality. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.

A Gnani, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billniore, he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion.

It is not correct to say that, a Gnani sees only good everywhere and never evil. He is fully aware of the evil things, he knows when he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is a good practical point of view and what is real and what is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

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A Gnani is not a Guru or disciple of any Guru. Guru and disciple business is Only applicable in the religious and yogic path. The religious Guru has nothing to do with Gnana he is more concerned with serving humanity. 

Seekers of truth must path alone because he has to mentally transcend the illusory world in which he exists.  Holding anything of the world as reality blocks him from realizing the truth hidden by the illusory world in which he exists.  

Sage Sankara clearly indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man." (Stanza 539).   

A Gnani wears no signs which means he does not identify himself as a Guru or teacher or swami or yogi.  ~ It means the one who wears the robes is not a Gnani because he identifies himself with his birth entity and his inherited religion. 

Thus, he accepts the birth entity as the Self and the world as reality, whereas the Self is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.   

The one who identifies himself as swami, 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 and yogic path, not the path of truth or wisdom.   

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

 

Thus, it proves that religious Gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people. 

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.

Advaita is not a theory or a philosophy. Advaita is the nature of the Soul the innermost Self.  There is no need for any theory or philosophy or scriptures to acquire Self-knowledge. Only a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

Sage  Sankara:~ 'Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the Veda to that person. What is the Veda? ~ utterances of those who have known the Truth. Here is one who has known the Truth; why should he or she depend upon the Veda further? Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration. The Upanishad itself says that the 'words are only so much of distraction for such minds'

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

You need not become a Guru or a monk to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. You have not to renounce the world or to leave anything ~ your wife, children, job, responsibilities. 

You do not have to renounce anything! The only thing you have to realize is the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space by realizing that form, time, and space are the product of ignorance. When the ignorance vanishes, the unreality of the form, time, and space is exposed.

Upanishad says:~  "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e. no Gnana.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89) 

The only business of the Gnani is to enable serious seekers to attain Gnana, to come to his level. There is nothing else for him to do.

Let no wise man cause unsettlement in the minds of the ignorant. That is why a Gnani cannot be distinguished from others; because he would work with those who are ignorant as if he is one among them.

A Gnani has nothing to gain by activities in the world" does not mean he must sit quietly like yogis and do nothing. The emphasis must be placed on the word "gain". It means that when you are active, you don't expect anything.

If one says the being engaged in work is of no use to the Gnani, what is the use of actionlessness to him?

Our actions help in the realization of the Soul, provided we seek the truth, which is hidden by ignorance. "A Gnani sees action in inaction, and inaction in action."

When everything is known to be consciousness,  the presence or absence of the universe does not affect the Soul, the Self, which is ever nondual.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar