.Accepting 'I-centric Gurus and their teachings will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will misdirect the quest of truth, which blocks seekers spiritual progress. *****

People say Aham Brahmasmi,  I AM GOD, I AM BRAHMAN. I AM THAT. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not I. Brahman is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  

The existence without ‘I’ is the ultimate truth. Brahman means ultimate truth.  The ultimate truth is God.

What does it avail you to attribute the cause of misery to the happenings of life when that cause is really within the ‘I’?

The ‘I’ is extraneous to the Self. Remember the Self is not the ‘I’ but the ‘Self is the Soul the witness of the ‘I.

Some Gurus and teachers in the past hold Self as 'you' without knowing what the Self in actuality and spin their imagination and propagated their teaching based on   Self, as I or I AM.  Accepting 'I-centric Gurus and their teachings will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will misdirect the quest of truth, which blocks seekers spiritual progress. 

Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8:~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.” 

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress. 

 Sage Sri, Sankara says: - VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.

What is the use of saying ‘I am’ not the body when the “Self’ is not the ‘I’?  The “Self’ is not within you, because you are not the “Self’.  If the ‘“Self’ is not the ‘I’ then what is the use of saying ‘I THAT’ ‘I AM’ with this ‘I AM’.  You must know the ‘“Self’’ in truth.  You must realize the truth with full conviction ‘what is the truth’ to realize ‘what is untruth’.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say "I" If you feel the ‘“Self’’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

The Soul is the  “Self’. The nature of the Soul is ‘I-LESS’ existence.  The Soul is permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes.

Thus, it is necessary to know the ‘I’ itself is merely an illusion to realize the truth beyond the form, time and space.   The seeker has to realize the truth of the whole, not the part. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar