Sage Sankara says the transparent truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusion.+

India is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages of truth like Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Sankara, and Sage  Goudpada.

India is the fountainhead of Advaitic wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is brighter and greater which unfolds the mystery of the universe, which contains the whole humanity.

The goal of the truth-seeker is to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is inherent in every seeker of truth. 

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not come from outside, it is hidden within the world in which we exist.

Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge. Therefore, there is no use in studying the scriptures and philosophy to acquire non-dualistic wisdom. 

That is why Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of God, and the scriptures.

The man who speaks about religious God, scriptures, and religion is not a Gnani. A yogi who speaks about yoga is not a Gnani. A Godman who indulges in miracles is not a Gnani. An intellectual who argues on his own speculated theories is not a Gnani.

A Gnani is the one who shares knowledge and guides people towards the source of the mind (physical existence) is real Gnani. A Gnani never claims himself a teacher nor does he accept anyone as a disciple. 

Sage Sankara was a Gnani. Most of the modern Gurus are not Gnanis. And you must understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is totally different.

Out of a million people perhaps one is a Gnani. Most of the Self- realized decide to remain silent – seeing the difficulty, that whatever they have realized is impossible to convey in any possible way to others; seeing that not only is it difficult to convey, but it is also bound to be misunderstood too.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani, he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others.

People cannot distinguish between reasoning and intellect as Gnani does. Egocentric reason applied only to practical life within the practical world is called logic, and intellect. 

Soulcentric reason is the Spiritualistic reason that is necessary to unfold the truth of the whole.

A Gnani knows both egocentric reason (logic) and Soulcentric reason. He uses egocentric reason (logic) in practical life within the practical world and uses Soulcentric reason to know the truth beyond, time and space. 

Logic is very much necessary for a practical purpose. But logic cannot be applied to discover the truth because logic implies duality and the ultimate truth is based on the Nondualistic perspective.

A Gnani is not a religious person. A Gnani does not depend on the scriptures. A Gnani is a fountainhead of Gnana. The Advaitic Gnana is the only indication to recognize a Gnani. 

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusion is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani) then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

For Gnani, the world is an illusion. Viewed from the absolute, there's neither birth nor life nor death, neither appearance nor disappearance, neither production nor destruction, neither bondage nor liberation. 

There's none who neither seeks for freedom nor is there any who is liberated - this is the highest truth.

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. The duality is an illusory appearance and the non-dual Atman is the ultimate truth.

Manduka Upanishads: - It is not possible to 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.

Sage  Sankara's: ~ "The knower of Brahman (Self-realized or Gnani) wears no signs. 

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