What is the use of meeting Gurus or yogis and visiting the Asrams and attending the sermons of Gurus and yogis who not Gnanis.+

People, who claim that their doubts vanish merely by sitting in the presence of a yogi, have merely been hypnotized.

People are unaware that they are sitting in the presence of a yogi within the dualistic illusion or Maya. The truth they are searching for is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya or 'I'. 

The religion, religious Gods, and religious followers, and the world in which they exist are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya.  

The religion, religious Gods, and religious followers and the world in which they exist are within a dualistic illusion or Maya. 

A Sanyasi, who dressed in a religious robe, with coiled hair and a beard, and his whole body was smeared with ashes and for years he has lived aloof like a recluse, he has been visiting places of pilgrimage, but unless and until he gets Advaitic Gnana he will gain no Advaitic Gnana.  He will remain ignorant. 

Remember:~  

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539). 

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 a Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage   Sankara is a Brahma Gnani. 

Thus, it proves that religious Gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people and their religion.  

Sage Sankara says the knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life then it is of no use to renounce the worldly life, and become and sanyasi or monk or Sadhu to acquire ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Brahma Gnana.

What is the use of meeting Gurus or yogis and visiting the Asrams and attending the sermons of Gurus and yogis who are not Gnanis, because, they consider themselves as holy people.  

Remember:~  

Religion and mysticism are a species of mesmerism affecting weaker or impressionable minds. The complete and impressive array of a Guru’s religious robes lifestyle creates the unconscious suggestion in the weaker mindset of superior power or magical knowledge. 

The visitors to ashrams are suggested to think they experience great peace because they are unconsciously hypnotized into believing that will happen. But when a strong disciplined philosophic mind meets a Guru or visits an ashram, he is entirely unaffected. 

People think that by meeting Gurus and yogis and by visiting the Ashrams they feel much peace as a result. But such peace and feeling has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. That is only hallucinated peace. Such hallucinated peace has nothing t to do with the question of truth. The person, who had eaten well, may also feel much satisfaction and contentment; his feeling is similar to the yogi. Such feelings and satisfaction are a reality within the duality. The duality is not a reality from the standpoint of the Soul, the ‘Self’. 

When the follower of mysticism sits before the yogic Guru, he may see all kinds of visions; the explanation is that he expects certain experiences and gets them, or else the Guru suggests them; the mind of the follower creates the entire experience. It is precisely the same as the experiences of a hypnotic subject, which are the consequences of a stronger mindset working on a weaker one. 

Without a prior suggestion, it is impossible to impress, people. So, there must be the prior suggestion strongly felt and accepted that one is entering the presence of a powerful yogi. Otherwise, the words or person of a yogi will fail to impress the visitors; all the visions, experiences, etc., which afterward occur are a matter of suggestibility. 

Believers of religion and mysticism who are anxious for a mystic or occult experience often get it. But it is only a mental construction of their own, suggested originally from outside. 

Suggestions may even come to one from a book or someone or read or seen, and thinking of them a number of times; then when he meets and sits before a yogic Guru for the first time, the suggestion comes up from the past or subconsciously and gives you a vision or mystic experience. 

The whole thing is superimposition. So, he is led by constant dwelling on a thought, to the manufacture of it as a projected experience. The complex overcomes them. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar