The concept of surrendering to Guru belongs to religion and yoga. Religion and yoga are nothing to do with spirituality.+

Those fortunate ones will be able to acquire Advaitic wisdom.  People generally have a very superficial understanding of the ‘Self’.  

It is your sincerity and seriousness that will make you reach the ultimate end of understanding and realization. If the significance of the words were weighed literally and pondered over deeply the truth hidden by ignorance will start revealing.

Your devotion to the goal to realize the truth and perfection will make you acquire the Advaitic wisdom. 

Millions are searching for truth, but one in a million will realize it. You are one from that million. 

The inner 'Self' reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

It takes time for the seeker to gain a perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’.

It takes time for the Soul, the  Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the 'Self"(truth), hidden by the ignorance(I).

If the significance of the words has to be weighed literally and pondered over deeply the truth hidden by the ignorance will start revealing.

The idea that a disciple has to completely surrender to a Guru, is a religious and yogic fable.

Guru says simply surrender to God without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality. There is nothing to surrender. The surrender implies duality. The duality disappears when the Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The concept of surrendering to Guru belongs to religion and yoga. Religion and yoga have nothing to do with spirituality.

To realize the ‘Self' hidden by the dualistic illusion, you have to realize the dualistic illusion is made of single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Self-knowledge o or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into a waking experience and waking experience into mind and mind into consciousness by perfect understating of ‘what is what’.

When you realize ’what is what’ you will realize everything is nothing but the consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

When there is unity in diversity in our realization then there is stillness in the midst of diversity.

The Soul, the Self is existence itself. The Soul, the Self is existence without the illusory division of form, time, and space. The Soul, the Self is the fullness of consciousness. The Soul, the Self is Advaita one without the Second.

The Soul the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, the Self is God in truth. God in truth is  Advaita.

Remember:~ 

Manduka Upanishad 1:2:8: ~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking, “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”

Manduka Upanishad 3:2:3: ~ “The weak and timid cannot realize the Self. Self-realization is not possible through intellect or hearing the spiritual discourse. One who welcomes God in every activity, through a thorough controlled, and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed.

They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery when accepting the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the material cause of the universe.

Accepting anything other than the Soul as Self is a great error. The Soul or consciousness is all-pervading and it is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

But those who believe the universe as reality are extremely foolish to accept the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality. 

The Soul itself is the God. Nothing exists without the Soul because everything is created out of the Soul, the God.

Sage Sankara 65.- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

The seeker has to overcome all the obstacles in his pursuit of truth by a perfect understanding of 'what is what'. 

There are so many scholars who mastered philosophy, but It is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana through theoretical philosophy. Because their preaching is based on Spirit and practices are based on the matter (you or waking entity).

Thus, the seeker of truth has to realize the Advaitic truth without the scriptures, without Guru, and without getting involved with the orthodoxy or any other teaching.:~Santthosh Kumaar