The one who has acquired Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana is a Gnani.+

When Jesus came to his village he was very surprised -- the people of the village didn't bother about him at all. Jesus has said a prophet is never respected in his own country. What is the reason? Why won't the village respect its prophet? The village people have seen him as the son of the carpenter Joseph, saw him carrying wood, saw him planing wood, saw him sawing wood, saw him bathed in sweat, saw him playing and fighting in the streets. The people of the village have known him since childhood, have seen him there as a seed. How is it possible that he suddenly becomes the son of God! No, those who saw the seed cannot accept the flower. They say there must be some fraud, some cheating; this man is a hypocrite.  

Jesus said: - Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (Matthew -7:6)

Jesus meant Knowledge of the Spirit (God) or  Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana (pearls) should not be given to the ignorant populace (pigs). 

The one who has acquired  Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana is a Gnani. 

Manduka Upanishads: - It is difficult to find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the yellow robe has anything to do with him.

If the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul than what is the use of thinking about your body and your experience of the world.

From the standpoint of the Soul, body and the world too is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness then it is erroneous to identify your body as the body, and your experience of the world as the world because they are just an illusion created out of the consciousness.

Remember this: ~

Your body is not the body but it is the consciousness.

The world in which you exist is not the world but it is the consciousness.

If you still think your body as the body and your experience of the world as the world, you are not a wise seeker.

For a Gnani: ~

Where is the body?

Where is the mind?

Where is the world?

Where is the void; or despair in the Soul, the Self, which present in the form of the consciousness. They are or have become consciousness. 

One thinks there is mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from the consciousness, which is the true Self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep, etc.

Void implies duality: the universe may not exist, but the thought of the second is there. If one knows there is a Void (emptiness/nothingness), then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become consciousness. 

What are the scriptures, what is Self-knowledge, what is the mind without the objects, what is contentment, and where is desirelessness for the formless Soul, the innermost Self, which is ever devoid of the sense of duality? 

What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What is the ego? What is duality? What is the mind? What is bondage? What is liberation? What is definableness to the formless Soul, the innermost Self, which is in the form of consciousness? 

All these appearances are merely an illusion, which comes and go; hence meaningless to the formless Soul, the Self. 

The egocentric knowledge is not the ultimate knowledge because egocentric knowledge is dualistic knowledge based on the object (body) as the subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore, there is no scope for the existence of the second thing. 

Remember:~

What are the past karmas? What is liberation –in this life? and What is that liberation at death? for the birth- less Soul, which is ever formless.

The nearest state to understand the Soul by itself is to eliminate mentally waking and dream as in deep sleep. Once this is grasped one has to understand everything is consciousness, which is the real Self. 

What is the doer or the enjoyer? What is the cessation of thoughts or the rising of thoughts? What are immediate perceptions and its result to, the formless Soul, which is ever impersonal? A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experience and the world to be the consciousness. 

What is the world and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation; what is contemplative and what is the man of knowledge; what the Self is and what liberated Self to the formless Soul, which is the non-dual essence. 

When we analyze the dream experience, we find the dream entity, dream world with all people in it appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until waking experience appeared. When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in the waking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, one becomes aware of the fact that the Self is not physical, but it is formless Soul, which is in the form of consciousness which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made. 

Thus, the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness. By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as the Self, the ignorance vanishes and one becomes aware of the fact that the three states are merely an illusion on the standpoint of the formless substance, which is also the witness of the three states.

Remember:~

Unless you realize the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self’ and identify only the Soul the ignorance will not vanish.

Many people quote Advaita without understanding it really in its highest aspect. They declare themselves as Gnanis, but their knowledge really mysticism.

There is no hope for those who call themselves realists because they are unwilling to make an inquiry into what is real. The true seeker of truth analyses and inquires, not relying on first impressions, and hence he is fit for the path of Advaitic wisdom.

They have to know that what they are saying is true.  There are so many conflicting teachings by many Gurus, one gets confused as to which are true. They will be unable to prove because they do not know the proper test of truth they preach what is written is books with their own interpretation without verifying them.

Why does one start with assuming that anything he knows is true? Many things he regards many things unconsciously as true because he enjoys them or is pleased or satisfied with them. But without verification, nothing has to be accepted as truth. Advaitic wisdom gives uncontradictable truth which is rational truth, scientific truth, and ultimate truth. 

Remember:~

To realize the Advaitic truth is the seeker's aim, which is quite different from the opinions of dualistic egocentric schools. Advaitic truth is Soulcentric truth and uncontradictable truth.  

All the various views are mere opinions and have nothing to do with the ascertainment of the ultimate truth, which is beyond the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world.

In the Advaitic path, the seeker of truth has to analyze the whole world; think consistently on it.  He has to exercise his thinking faculty and inquire continually; discrimination is essential; this practice is the only way to grasp Advaitic truth.

Gnana is that knowledge, knowing which everything else becomes known. Truth can be known by its being impossible of contradiction and depending entirely on what is not the self.  The seeker of truth has to go to the very root of things. He rejects everything untrue by Soulcentric reasoning." : ~ Santthosh Kumaar