Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is different.+

One need not renounce worldly life and become a sanyasi or monk. One need not retire from their business or corporate job and become a Guru; all these religious and yogic propagated outdated ideas have to be discarded to realize the truth of true existence.

Do not become a slave of all these outdated religious and yogic ideas; they are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth.

There is no need to follow anyone. Self-realization becomes easy if you independently walk your path.

Atmic path is your path. You have to tread the path alone to reach it alone, finally, nothing remains as reality other than the Atma or Soul, or Spirit.

The seeker has to stop getting emotionally and sentimentally stuck with the physical Gurus if he is seeking nothing but the truth.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha: ~ “Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is 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, it is 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. A Gnani is not a religious person or a Yogi.

One need not roam from one mountain to another, one ashram to another, or meet gurus or yogis to get Gnana. One can get Gnana and become a Gnani wherever one lives.

We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, searching the truth in the illusion with the illusory ‘Self’, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained, and finally, it dissolves as consciousness.

There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God in truth

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sanyasa or wearing religious robes or by mastering the scriptures or by identifying with the religious symbol.

Religious robes and religious symbols are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Blind faith is an obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The seeker should not waste his time on it; he should primarily reflect on the invisible Soul, the Self, not on the ‘I’.

The invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness), is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Shruti says ~ "brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati" - He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman Itself. In the Advaita understanding of this statement, the "becoming" is only metaphorical. It is not as if something that was not Brahman suddenly becomes Brahman. Rather, "realizing Brahman" means a removal of the ignorance about one's own essential nature as Brahman. Thus, to "know Brahman" is to "be Brahman".

The one who has realized the identity with the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’ with the Brahman, is a Gnani, one who is liberated even while embodied. Such a realization should not and cannot just be a literal understanding of the Upanishadic Mahavakya.

Remember:~

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma a) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance. Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. '

All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~"The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state.

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance.

Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar