Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake, the Atman is mistaken as this diverse universe.+

The India spiritual supermarket of spirituality.  there are many shops selling region, yoga and different products in the name of spirituality.  People are unaware of the fact that religion, yogas are not concerned with spirituality.   

Realization of real truth is not available in the spiritual supermarket. Only Gnanis offer such realization but extremely few seekers seeking for it.

People are so immersed in ignorance that they are no capacity to know what is the truth? and what is the untruth? Where to find what they searching for.

The populace is not bothered to find out the truth of their own God which they believe and worship.

All they want is a happy life of ease with plenty of money, security and other comforts at their command. Thus, the populace is seeking a happy life with comforts free from fear. They are strongly conditioned to believe in birth, life and death, therefore, the idea of birth, life, and death will not diminish until one realizes the experience of the birth, life and death are part of the illusion

There are millions in search of the truth but one in million will be able to grasp the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time and space. A Gnani highlights the obstacle in the pursuit of truth.     

It is for every seeker who is in the path of truth to know “What is the truth, “and “What is untruth?” to acquire the Self –knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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Many people are struck with awe or reverence at the outer indications of renunciation, and thus blindly accept a religious Guru or Godmen to be a Gnani. 

The two have no connection. Because he has no wife, no family, and no possessions" they think a man who has merely repressed these desires as though these things had anything to do with the wisdom he is a religious man.

People need to be more competent to judge who is a Gnani between Godmen, intellectuals, and yogis. A Gnani is neither Godmen, nor a yogi, nor an intellectual. 

A Gnani vision of the world, in which he exists, is, beyond time and space, embracing the Soul, ultimate reality. The universe in which you exist is within the Soul.

A Guru who speaks about religious God, scriptures, rituals, and religion is not a Gnani.

A yogi who is immersed in yogic samadhi is not a Gnani.

A Godman who indulges in miracle is not a Gnani.

An intellectual who argues on his own speculated theories are not a Gnani.

A man who has mastered the scriptural knowledge is not a Gnani.

A man propagates sex as the means of liberation is not a Gnani.

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

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

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

Sage Sankara was a Gnani. The modern Gurus are not Gnanis. And you have to 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 a Gnani does. Egocentric reason applied only to practical life within the practical world is called logic, intellect.

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

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

Logic is very much necessary for practical purposes. But the 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 the 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 the appearance nor the disappearance, neither the production nor the destruction, neither the bondage nor the 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 as this diverse universe. The duality is an illusory appearance and the non-dual Atman is the real truth. 

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms are nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

Sage  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 a reality.

Manduka Upanishads: - It is very difficult 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.

The one who identifies himself as a swami, a Guru or yogi, is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies 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