By sentimentally and emotionally getting involved with some teachings or teacher is great hindrance in pursuit of truth.

 

 

 The seeker has to try to know the fact that, with the help of inquiry, analysis and reasoning, the true self is not ‘ego’, but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Holding the ego (waking entity) as self is the cause of ignorance. The consciousness is the knower of the body and the universe. 

It is very difficult for those who strongly believe the ‘I’, as self to realize the truth. Most of the spiritual paths hold the ‘I’, as self and spin their imagination on the base of ‘I’, which leads them to hallucination. People mistake that self as “I” whereas the gross bodies are many. So ‘I’ cannot be self.

By sentimentally and emotionally getting involved with some teachings or teacher is great hindrance in pursuit of truth. People hold their guru as ultimate authority and drop their pursuit of truth and indulge in their glorifying and worshiping the gurus, which keeps them in the permanently in ignorance.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the destroyer of ignorance. The soul or consciousness is the innermost self is the guru and the God, the all-pervading principle and the cause of all three states and it itself is uncaused.