A Gnani is not recognized by the people because he does not identify himself with religion nor he wears a religious robe.+*****

When Jesus came to his village he was very surprised - the people of the village didn't bother with him at all. Jesus has said a prophet is never respected in his own country. What is the reason? Why won't the village respect its prophet? The village people have seen him as the son of the carpenter Joseph, saw him carrying wood, saw him planing wood, saw him sawing wood, saw him bathed in sweat, saw him playing and fighting in the streets. The people of the village have known him since childhood, have seen him there as a seed. How is it possible that he suddenly becomes the son of God! No, those who saw the seed cannot accept the flower. They say there must be some fraud, some cheating; this man is a hypocrite.

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A Gnani is not recognized by the people because he does not identify himself with religion nor he wears a religious robe.

Manduka Upanishads: - It is not possible to recognize who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the yellow robe has anything to do with him.

Sage Sri, Sankara Gnan wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior." When the knower of Brahman wears no signs -- it means he does not identify himself as a Guru or a teacher.

Sage Sri, Sankara says:~ A Gnani~ “Sometimes he appears to be a fool, sometimes a wise man. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi. People see god only through their religious spectacle. They fail to recognize the truth hidden by their religion.

One needs Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sri, Sankara to realize the conscious awareness of the consciousness in the midst of the waking state.

 The wisdom will not dawn without  Advaitic wisdom.  No one gets it from his seeking or asking. You may be ready even to give up your very life for it, but with all this, you cannot claim grace. How can you demand grace? The very desire to possess grace is a barrier to receiving it. It is an act of unbounded spontaneity.

However, in a sense, you cannot love me without my grace and as such all of the “experiences” you have are nothing but a game of my grace.

But grace as grace is quite different. It is not received in parts. It is infinitely indivisible and so indescribable. It is the whim of the fully conscious Infinite to make the apparently finite realize its Infinity. On the part of the finite, it can be likened to a drop gulping the Ocean!

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Sage Sri, Sankara On Gnani: ~ "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior." 

Sage Sri, Sankara: ~ The Knower of the Atman or the knower of Brahman or Brahma Gnani.

When the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs it means he does not identify himself as Guru or yogi or teacher or Swami, because a Gnani sees   the form, the time and space are one in essence. Thus, there is unity in diversity in his realization.

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

The seeker of truth need not renounce the worldly life run to the mountains or run behind the Gurus or Yogis waste their precious life and fortune in order to get self-knowledge.  If the seeker has an intense urge to realize the truth, then that very urge leads to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

What is the use of renouncing anything within the dualistic illusion?  By giving up anything the ignorance will not vanish. By hearing ornamental words from some guru wisdom will not dawn.  Sticking to some Guru trying to get self-realization is trying to drain the sea drop by drop.

The path of wisdom is the inner path. The inner path is a mental path.   Without stepping out of the boundary of the form, time and space, it is impossible to assimilate Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

This Path of wisdom is Soulcentric, therefore, it is very difficult to tread this path on egocentric perspective. Even the yogis and saints have not come to understand the state of the Soul, the ‘Self’.

Ignorance is the cause of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).  

Man and his experience of the world is the result of ignorance.  Man and his experience of the world cease to exist as a reality in the realm of the Soul, the ‘Self’. 

The consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  The world in which you exist is created out of consciousness. When this truth is revealed from the inner core than the Advaitic wisdom will dawn. When wisdom dawns then the Soul, the ‘Self’, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the diversity. :~  Santthosh Kumaar