Knowledge gathered as wisdom from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied.+

Sage Sankara:~ 'Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the Veda to that person. What is the Veda? -- utterances of those who have known the Truth. Here is one who has known the Truth; why should he or she depend upon the Veda further? Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration. The Upanishad itself says that the 'words are only so much of distraction for such minds'

Someone posing as a Gnani, because he is some guru’s 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. 

Knowledge gathered as wisdom from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. 


The seeker has to realize the fact that the right path to acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the inner (mental) path.   

Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” 

In this hi-fi world, many self-declared Spiritual Gurus are born like mushrooms amidst us and they are looked upon as great solace by the mass of gullible people, who are more ‘peace and wisdom hungry. 

Most seekers are looking for something beyond their inherited belief system. Most of these dollar-hungry gurus hanker after titles and honors and enjoy it like these modern-day self-styled gurus and they are connected to one or other controversies and scandals. 

People get stuck with these modern self-proclaimed gurus who claim to be enlightened.  Many of these Gurus have taken many new “avatars” like Corporate Gurus, Universal Gurus, online Gurus, Global Gurus, one name it, he will find them. The honest Gurus and swamis never come to the limelight and they remain to mind their own inherited divine business and remain aloof from publicity.    

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There are so many gurus who have overnight become Global Gurus. They only play with the feelings of people. Most of them are propagating ancient yogic practices as if it is their own great new invention and branding them or getting them patented,   this is the height of the mockery of spirituality. 

As long as innocent and ignorant people are there, these kinds of Gurus can flourish their business to peak height. They are fooling the masses who are unaware of the fact that their inherited belief system itself is not the original Vedic religion.

The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. 

The seeker has to realize that the Self is not 'I', but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal. 

People think that ‘Soul’ or ‘Spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, the Mind is the highest: it is consciousness, non-dual wisdom.

The individual is a bundle of memories and desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore, the individual self is entirely part and parcel of the illusory universe. 

People's ideas that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.

The words betray the hollowness. The real cannot be described; it must be discovered and realized. Whatever the words try to convey is only helpful to grasp the truth. The non-dual truth has to be grasped and realized.  

The man knows only the world and his individual experiences within the world.   He is not aware that he and his experience of the world are part of the illusion. He views and judges the truth on the base of his birth entity, which is a false entity, thus he is stuck in the muck of illusion or duality. 

The non-dual truth lies beyond the physical-based understanding.  Thus, it is necessary to verify the fact through deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning about his own inherited beliefs and accumulated knowledge, to realize, how they become an obstacle to realizing the truth. 

The physical conditioning of the Soul will be dropped only when it realizes that the physical self or ego is not the Self. Thus struggling to get rid of the ego and ego-based conditioning or samskara is a foolish venture. 

Constant mental pounding is necessary through constant reflecting on the truth that, the Soul is the true Self and on the base of the Soul all else is merely an illusion.   

When one grasps this truth and becomes firm in his conviction the physical conviction drops and the non-dual wisdom dawns.  Thus, one becomes aware of the non-dual truth in the midst of the experience of duality or illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar