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All the Guru, Godmen, cult leaders, teachers mislead the people promising them a better life and better relationship, and successful future.    Spirituality is nothing to do with you and your life and your relationship and your successful future.   

90% of the Guru, Godmen, cult leaders, teachers are involved in rape, murder, drugs, and land grabbing.  Before choosing anyone as Guru people must check their criminal involvement, which is available on the net search.  

Most of the gurus and Godmen commercialized spirituality. What they are preaching is not spirituality but in the name of spirituality, they are looting and cheating people.   

A Self-declared Guru is more concerned with himself than with his disciples and plays with their sentiments and emotions.  Sticking to such Gurus the seeker will not get the Self –realization.  

Gurus and yogis are meant for those who are emotionally involved with their religion and religious Gods. 

The one who identifies himself as a swami, a Guru or yogi,  is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi. Swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.   

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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.

A Gnani will never force anyone to accept the path of wisdom. He will constantly bring the seeker back to the fact of his inherent perfection and encourage him to seek the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. A Gnani knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you.  A Gnani continuously shares Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana with like-minded fellow seekers. 

Religious or yogic Gurus propagate that, once a seeker identifies a Guru, he must totally surrender to the Guru, and then from there onwards, the spiritual journey is fully the Guru's responsibility, not his... Hence the importance of choosing the right Guru is necessary, but in the pursuit of truth, the Guru is not necessary, because the truth is not theoretical.  Truth must be ascertained by the seeker on his own through Soulcentric reasoning.

The one who identifies himself as a swami, a Guru or yogi, is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi. Swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.  

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

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A Gnani is not opposed to God, he is not an atheist, but he wants God free from the imagination, as God is in truth, as he exists apart from human imaginations.  

Self - Realization is common to the whole of humanity. Gurus use their power of authority on the followers whereas Gnanis share the wisdom with the seekers. Gnani shows the way to the treasure hidden by ignorance.   

A  Gnani shares Advaitic wisdom so long as he lives in this illusory world. A Gnani lives in the world but he has realized the world in which he exists is merely an illusion. 

A Gnani belongs to no religion because he has accepted God, the Advaita, the truth hidden by the religion.  Religion is built on the foundation of ignorance. A Gnani has realized the ‘Self’ hidden by ignorance.

A Gnani has realized the fact that the universe hides the Soul, the Self, which is the universal truth and the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.  Brahman is God in truth.   The Soul, God is Advaita. The Advaita is nothing but God in truth.

A Gnani sees only unity in diversity, just like a goldsmith estimating the gold in various items of jewelry sees only gold. When one identifies the Self with the form then only the form, time and space are present. But when one transcends form, time, and space the duality never remains as reality. 

A Gnani is not a Godman or Guru or mystic. A Gnani never identifies himself as a holy person.

Yoga Vasistha: The greatest Gnani: “His state is indescribable yet he will move in the world like anybody else," ..." Though acting after every feeling such as love, hate, fear and the like, he who stands unaffected within is said to be real jivanmukta." Sankara's commentary.

Yoga Vasistha says of the Gnani: "He is a great worker." It also so says, that he keeps his body healthy, does not starve it. 

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So, he was identified as Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people. 

One, who has realized ultimate truth or Brahman, is freed from experiencing the dualistic illusion (universe) as a reality. He is a Gnani. A Gnani is liberated from ignorance, which is the cause of the dualistic illusion. Thus, a Gnani is freed from experiencing form, time, and space as a reality while still living in the practical world.  He continues to live in the practical world in Self-awareness.

A householder who becomes a Gnani will go on with his usual with his profession. He will try to guide those with whom he comes in contact with whatever society he is in, he tries to uplift them spiritually.

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.

A Gnani works for the upliftment of humanity from ignorance. A  Gnani is the one who enjoys the worldly life, but simultaneously suffers the suffering of the world. Outwardly, he looks like an ordinary man; but inwardly, he cannot be understood.  Gnani has to share the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana for the betterment of humanity.

For the wise who realizes everything as the consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do?

Whatever happens in the past and present is happening within the dualistic illusion. Whatever you must do or not do in the future is also will be happening within the dualistic illusion.

A Gnani is not concerned with what happened in the past, what is happening in the present, and what will happen in the future because he lives in the world but he is not of this world. 

When the Self is not you but the Soul then what is the use of thinking what to do after realization because it is just happening within the dualistic illusion.

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A  Gnani who has realized the world in which he exists as the consciousness. What is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do? 

Those who give up the highest and purest Brahmic consciousness live in vain and though human, are like beasts. Having turned the visible into the invisible, one should realize everything to be consciousness itself.

A  Gnani always dwells in nondual awareness in the midst of duality. The ever-existent Soul or consciousness shining within the three states can be realized only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

The Self indeed is this Soul which is present in the form of consciousness, not the phenomenal universe which is present in the form of the mind.

A  Gnani who has realized everything as consciousness. A  Gnani always dwells in nondual awareness in the midst of duality.

The one who he realizes Brahman becomes a Gnani.  A Gnani would be there to show the way to Liberation. A Gnani does not identify himself as Guru or swami or yogi or sadhu.

A Gnani imparts Knowledge to others. A Yogi lies in Samadhi like a wooden log so he does not know yogic Samadhi is not wisdom.  Gnani is fully aware of the about all things, either permanent or perishable and he has realized both permanent and perishable to be consciousness.  Thus, the consciousness alone is real and eternal all else is merely an illusion.

The one who he realizes Brahman becomes a Gnani.  A Gnani would be there to show the way to freedom from experiencing the duality as reality. A Gnani does not identify himself as Guru or swami or yogi or sadhu.  

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

No one can teach anybody. The truth is hidden by the illusory world in which you exist.  A Gnani can only show the way that much is the work of a Gnani. 

A Gnani only guides the seekers to apply their own reason and realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. When the seeker learns to view and judge and reason the three states on the base of the Soul, the truth will start unfolding on its own.     

First, the seeker may find it difficult to use soulcentric reason but gradually it will become easy.  :~Santthosh Kumaar