A Gnani never identifies himself as guru.+

A Guru who pretends to be Self- realized and plays with the emotions and sentiments of the seeker is a fraud, not a Gnani.

If you emotionally and sentimentally hold on to the physical Guru as a guide you will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion to non-dualistic reality.

The idea of having a Guru itself blocks you from realizing the Self’, which is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

It means the Gurus, Swamis, and Yogis who identify themselves as holy people are not Gnanis.

Those who are seeking truth need not follow any Guru or any teaching.

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 or you). Therefore, the Guru –Shisya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

Religious gurus or yogis are too enthusiastic to have everyone as their disciple, and they will push themselves on others with their advice, and authoritative scriptural knowledge. Religious gurus or yogis want to keep everyone in the domain of religion and yoga.

More than they want to help people, they want to help their ego. They   only use people and impose their inherited idea of religion and God on them, usually unintentionally because they themselves is more unconscious than others of the ultimate truth.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani or tries to show off that he is wise,  and others are less wise. Gnani never indulges in argument,  but he only put his point of view.   A Gnani is not enthusiastic to have anyone as his disciple. A Gnani never identifies himself as a  guru.  He does not impose his ideas on anyone. However, he identifies the serious seeker and guides them as fellow seekers. It is very difficult to identify a Gnani, because he never claims himself to be guru or teacher.

Most people are not aware of what really they are seeking. They start their pursuit with their inherited religious ideas,  and as they go deeper they will feel that religion and yoga are inadequate to quench their thirst.

A serious seeker will realize the fact that he is looking for something else, and he is now sure it is not the self-assurance, fulfillment of dreams, or fulfillment of the social demands.   He will realize the fact that, religion and yoga and theoretical philosophises are means to quench his inner thirst.  

A Gnani dearly cares about the serious seeker, but will stay aloof, he knows that if  the seeker needs to be assisted by him, he will approach or rather be drawn to approach him. He has no self-interest whatsoever and so anyone considered equally for his love as anybody else, whoever comes, comes and if no one comes it is also fine.

People are too fascinated by the glare of the world in which they exist; they take the world in which they as real. They will remain not to be able to realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space.

To live an ego-centric existence makes them feel the form, time, and space as a reality.

Egocentricity makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward. This conviction makes one strongly feel the world in which he exists is a reality.

Those who assert the world is reality are still in the elementary stages of the preliminary analysis. The world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience is merely an illusion. In the same way, the dream world was a reality within the dream experience. The dream became unreal when the waking took place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.:~Santthosh Kumaar