By attending many Satsanga of Gurus or by meeting many Gurus or yogis one will not find the truth he is seeking for.+

By attending many Satsanga of Gurus or by meeting many Gurus or yogis one will not find the truth he is seeking for.

People think they attended many Satsang of Gurus have met many Gurus, and they traveled to India and met many yogis, they have read many books, they have stayed in Ashrams, walked in the Himalayas, and totally surrender to their physical Guru but still, they are not achieving what they are seeking for.

To attain realization Advaita Vedanta is not necessary. You want fresh water to drink, but you do not require all the water of the river to quench your thirst.

 The intellectual wealth of accumulated knowledge is of no use in the quest for truth. Each Guru spins his own imagination and calls it wisdom.

Katha Upanishad says:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch~ II-5 P-14)

If you are seeking truth then first get freedom from all these ‘I’-centric Gurus and their teaching.

Sages of truth restrained themselves parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it. Self- it was given knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few. 

Thus, religion was given to the mass, and knowledge of the spirit is given to only a selected few. Thus we find traces of knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut: ~ “The ‘Self is the ultimate Reality; have no doubt. The Self is not something known by the mind; The Self is the very one who knows! How, then, could you think to know the Self? (1.36-42)

Advaita is not any type of teaching or philosophy. Advaita is the knowledge of your true existence. Advaita is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Advaita is the ultimate reality, Brahman or God in truth. 

That is why Sage Sankara said:~Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

If you are a truth seeker then it is better to spend time discovering the facts about your own existence than waste precious time attending  Satsang, meeting  Gurus and yogis, traveling from one place to another by reading book after book, staying at Ashrams, and by walking in the Himalayas.

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.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking of themselves as wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

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

By indulging in anything within the dualistic illusion ignorance will not vanish.  Realize that ‘I’ is the cause of ignorance. Your blind acceptance of ‘I’ based gurus and their teachings as final is blocking your realization.

The ‘I’-centric knowledge blocks the realization of truth because religion is built on the foundation of form, time, and space whereas the ultimate truth is based on the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If one is ready to drop all his baggage of inherited accumulated knowledge then it becomes easy to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

Freedom means becoming free from ignorance.  The ‘I’ is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion as reality.

Realize the Self is not ‘I’ but the Self is the nondual Soul. 

Remember: ~

Whatever is based on ‘I’ is an illusion.

Whatever is based on the Soul is a reality.

It is not possible to realize the Self without realizing the ‘I’ supposed to be in actuality.

The Soul, the Self is hidden within the ‘I’ but it is without the ‘I’.

All the ‘I’-centric accumulated knowledge is false knowledge.  Such ‘I’ -centric Gurus and their teaching makes you only hallucinate.  By giving up thoughts and beliefs, ignorance will not vanish. Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ helps you to unfold the truth which is hidden by the ‘I’.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar