A Gnani is neither a scriptural scholar nor he is a philosopher.+

A Gnani does not consider himself as wise and others are less wise. No one is wise or less wise in the pursuit of truth. The inner revolution starts within and ends within.  A Gnani is neither a scriptural scholar nor he is a philosopher. 

Gnani neither a teacher nor he has any teaching.  He silently works and helps the fellow seekers inspiring them and guiding them towards inner reality in his own way. The scholar will remain as scholars and philosophers will remain as philosophers and intellectual remains as intellectuals arguing on their point of view. Gnani never propagates any philosophy, because philosophy is nothing to do with the pursuit of truth, but he points out, the obstacles, which is blocking everyone’s realization.  

Avadhuta Gita describes Sage (Gnani) as:~

Having renounced all, he moves about naked. He perceives the Absolute, the All, within himself.

The Avadhuta never knows any mantra in Vedic meter or any Tantra. Ashtavakra Gita describes him in a similar manner:

The Sage sees no difference between happiness and misery, Man and woman, Adversity and success.  Everything is seen to be the same. 

The Sage is not conflicted by states of stillness and thought.  His mind is empty.  His home is the Absolute. 

Knowing for certain that all is Self, The sage has no trace of thoughts  Such as “I am this” or “I am not that.” 

The sage who finds stillness is neither distracted nor focused.  He knows neither pleasure nor pain.  Ignorance dispelled, He is free of knowing. 

The ignorance vanishes only when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns only when the waking entity (you) realizes it itself is not the self, but the self is the formless soul which witnesses the form, time and space together.  Thus,  instead of getting rid of the ‘I’ one has to get rid of ignorance by acquiring self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  A Gnani sees no separation in the form, time and space because,  form, time and space are one in essence. That essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The one who claims himself as Gnani is not a Gnani because he limits the ‘I’ to form alone and never takes the time and space into account. 

The Gnani is not a sanyasi or a guru or swami or Sadhu or monk.  Gnani does not belong to any ashrams."  Both Gnani and ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them. The Gnani sees the unity behind the differences within the realm of form, time and space by knowing the form, time and space are one in essence.  A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced the idea of a separation of form, time and space. 

A Gnani,  never claims himself as Gnani, he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others.

Manduka Upanishads: ~    Even the Gods cannot find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

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).  

Sage Sankara 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." 

Sage Sankara:~  Knower of the Atman or the knower of Brahman or Brahma Gnani.

When the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs it means he does not identify himself as Guru or yogi or teacher or Swami because a Gnani sees the form, the time and space are one in essence. Thus, there is unity in diversity in his realization.  

When the Soul remains in its own awareness, then the body is not the body, the ego is not the ego and the experience of the world is not the world but everything is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness.

People can only lecture for giving out falsehood, but it is a  waste of time delivers a public lecture giving out the truth.   It the illusions that appeal to the taste of the audience because they are ignorant about the world in which they exist is merely an illusion, from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost self.

For a crowd at a venue will contain men of varying capacities to understand, of whom only one or two might be receptive to receive the  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

If one wants to interview a Gnani then he must be ripe enough to understand what a Gnani is pointing at.    A Gnani will be withholding the truth because he is aware of the fact that, the unready people will not understand what he is saying.  The path of wisdom is not the path of argument. The argument is possible only from the standpoint of the ego, which is the false self within the false experience.

That is why Bhagavad Gita says: ~ "Don't unsettle the minds of the  ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth.”

A Gnani may travel provided he is actively engaged therein helping the serious seekers. For the benefit of those who think from the lower standpoint of the world of duality, the Gnani tells them to follow their chosen path and when they are convinced that their chosen paths are inadequate and useless in quenching their inner thirst then only they take the path of wisdom. 

The Gnani is not a sanyasi or a guru or swami or Sadhu or monk.  Gnani does not belong to any ashrams."  Both Gnani and ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them. 

Gnani sees the unity behind the differences within the realm of form, time and space by knowing the form, time and space are one in essence.  A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced the idea of a separation of form, time and space.

Gnanis have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search of truth and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, all authorities until they could be proved to be true. 

Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial makes no difference to them because if people have believed a false thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.  

The ultimate truth does not belong to the religion because the religion and its belief in God and its scriptures are a reality within the scope of form, time and space whereas the ultimate truth is hidden by the illusory form, time and space. 

The Gnani accepts the sameness in pleasure and pain because he is fully aware of the fact that the pleasure, pain, and the world are made of the same stuff and that stuff is consciousness.   

Without consciousness, there is no pleasure, pain, and the world.  Gnani’s position is that if enjoyment comes, he accepts it; if it does not, he keeps quiet. Even when he is taking pleasures, however, he is not deluded by them and he regards them as a game he is playing for he knows their unreality: he does not take them seriously. 

Clouds do not affect the sky, although they appear to; so the pleasure and pain do not change the Gnani because he is fully aware of the fact that, the pleasure and pain belong to the world. And the world is merely an illusion from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost self.    From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the illusion is merely a passing show. 

The Gnani will follow whatever occupation he wishes according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a peasant or a  billionaire. 

Gnanis do not perform miracles to attract attention to the truth.  If one performed Miracles in a dream the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. 

Wisdom dawns when the waking entity (you) realizes it itself is not the Self,  but the Self is the formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. 

The witness of the three states and the three states are one in essence.  That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Even whilst in the midst of the experience of objects, the Gnani has the awareness of the Soul, the Self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

In Self-awareness, there is no separation of form, time and space from the other because, form, time and space are one in essence. 

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes an  Avadhuta, and live as he wishes. :~Santthosh Kumaar