Manduka Upanishads: - A Gnani bears no external mark, neither nudity nor the yellow robe has anything to do with him.+

A Brahmin by birth, a Yogi, a Sanyasi, a Swami, a Sadhu a monk, a wandering ascetic, is not a Gnani. These are all categories that belong to the religious landscape of different ideologies. 

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

A Gnani cannot have the idea of renouncing the world or giving up something of the practical world because that would connote the idea of duality.  Duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.

If a seeker after truth receives the words of the wisdom from some source, that seeker must pay the source due respect and gratitude to get the grace of the Soul.

One does not become a Gnani by one’s matted hair. Nor does one become a Gnani by one’s clan. Even one’s birth in priest caste will not make a Gnani. One has to realize the Truth by acquiring Self-knowledge or Braham Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The matted hair and religious robes belong to the religion. Religion is based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (world). 

The one who has realized the Self is not the ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul knows the religious robes and matted coiled hair is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. 

The seeker who has realized the Soul alone is real and the world in which he exists is an illusion is worthy of the Advaitic Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the Self from experiencing the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana make the Soul, the 'Self' unburdened and put down the illusory load of the form, time, and space.

Through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or AtmaGnana the Soul, the 'Self' gets disengaged from the bonds of the illusory form, time, and space in which was imprisoned.

A Gnanis attention is fixed on the Soul and he sees the illusion as the consciousness, the one without the second.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar