searching for a Guru, renouncing the family life, studying the scriptures, and glorifying the personal Gods and Gurus are the greatest obstacles in the path of wisdom.+

There is no need to walk in the mountains in search of the truth. There is no need to meet any Gurus. 

There is no need to renounce family life. There is no need to study the scriptures. There is no need to glorify the Gurus. 

There is no need to spend a fortune to please the Gurus. Going to the mountains, searching for a Guru, renouncing the family life, studying the scriptures, and glorifying the personal Gods and Gurus are the greatest obstacles in the path of wisdom.

One need not be a monk, a sanyasi, or a swami to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Religious rituals scriptural mastery, are not a qualification to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Monkhood and sanyasa are the greatest obstacles in truth-realization, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Guru, Swami, Yogi, and Sadhu belong to religious paths. Religious paths are paths meant for the ignorant who blindly accept their experience the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality because the universe is the product of ignorance.

When wisdom dawns then the unreal nature of the world in which you exist is exposed. Thus, whatever experiences take place within the world in which you exist is bound to be a falsehood.

The Guru, Swami, Yogi, and Sadhu, have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God because they are based on the false self (ego), and false experience (waking). 

The Path of wisdom is only for those who are seriously in search of ultimate truth or Brahman. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is the knowledge of the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. 

The seeker's goal is Self-knowledge and nothing other than it. Therefore, the guru is needed in religious and yogic paths which are meant for the people who are not searching for truth but are searching for worldly comforts and temporary peace in this physical existence.  They fear losing their physical identity and all that is connected to their physical identity. 

When one realizes the physical identity (ego) is a false self and the true identity is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, then he realizes that the fear factor is limited to the false self within the false experience(waking). 

When the Self is not physical all the burden and bondage of the duality is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. :~ Santthosh Kumaar