A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seekers own work.+

A Gnani knows that there's neither unity nor plurality - the world is neither one nor many. Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake, the Atman is mistaken for this diverse world. Duality is an appearance and the non-dual Atman is the real truth. 

A Gnani does not spend his life sitting in meditation as a sanyasi or giving sermons, but he shares Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the seeking world. 

Gnanis have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search of the truth and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, and all authorities until they could be proved to be true. Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial make 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. 

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work. 

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

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 anyone performed Miracles in a dream the dream, becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. 

Advaitic Wisdom dawns when the waking entity (you) realizes it itself is not the Self, but the Self is the  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. 

Gnani accepts the sameness in pleasure and pain because he is fully aware of the fact that pleasure, pain, and the world are made of the same stuff and that stuff is the Soul or the consciousness.   Without consciousness, there is no pleasure, pain, or 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, they do not delude him and he regards them as a game he is playing for he knows their unreality: he does not take them seriously.   

A Gnani is always there to remind us of the Truth and gives the correct guidance. The ultimate truth is that the seekers have to do their own homework and no God will come to do it. Sadly this is not acceptable to many.

A Gnani will never advertise.  A Gnana is like a flower. People reach them following the fragrance.

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

A crowd at a venue will contain men of varying capacities to understand, of whom only one or two might be receptive to receive 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 actively engaged there in 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.  A Gnani will open up the knowledge treasure to a genuine seeker.:~Santthosh Kumaar