By surrendering to any physical guru or a Godmen, is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+

By surrendering to any physical guru or a Godmen, is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   The concept of surrendering to a guru is a religious fable. Gurus and Godmen belong to religion.   

Religious path is not the path of truth or Brahman.  Gurus and Godmen are nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman therefore they are not Gnanis.

Someone posing as a Gnani, because he is some gurus’ direct disciple cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis.  

A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru,  a swami,  a sadhu,  or a  yogi,  or some guru’s disciple. 

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread." Exploring if an outside observer can, in all cases, determine if a person is Enlightened or not, the venerated Indian Sanyasin, Sage Sankara, in his work The Crest Jewel of Discrimination (1) or as it is sometimes known, Viveka Chudamani (2), states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Sage Sankara meant, taking sanyasa and wearing  religious robes to earn bread. Sanyasa is not a qualification to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  

A Gnani wears no signs which means he does not identify himself as Guru or teacher or swami. 

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." 

If the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs that means he does not identify himself as Guru or yogi or Guru or Swami. 

When Sage Sankara says:~  a Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man then why stick to this gurus and surrender.

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

The Soul, the Self is the true guru. The seeker has to surrender to the Self by realizing the fact that, the Self is not physical but the Self is the Soul or Spirit. 

By realizing the Self is not physical but the Self is the Soul or Spirit, he will be able to drop all the accumulated knowledge and inherited conditioning based on physicality and he finds freedom from experiencing the illusory universe as a reality. ~ Santthosh Kumaar