The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. For those who have chosen the path of wisdom, there is no need to follow a Guru or worship the Guru as God.
The invisible Soul Self is bodiless because the invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The Self, not you but the Self, is the invisible Soul. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.
A Guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas the Advaitic Sage Sankara declares the world as unreal. How actions performed in an unreal world can get moksha or freedom.
There is a need to know that you are not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul to understand and assimilate, and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.
People think that when they meet a Guru, they get instant enlightenment because many people have experienced it. Such instant enlightenment is not wisdom but a hallucination. And such enlightenment or any experience of that sort is temporary.
There is no doubt that people must have experienced, but what they experienced is merely a hallucination. Experience implies duality. Experience is possible within form, time, and space.
The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge.
Sage Sankara indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).
Sage Sankara indicates that A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man. Yogis and gurus who identify themselves as holy men are not Gnanis
From the Advaitic perspective, A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone's disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.
Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state.
In Self-awareness, ignorance vanishes, and the unreal nature of form, time, and space is exposed. '
In Self-awareness (in the midst of duality), the body is not considered as a body, the ego is not considered as ego, the world is not considered as the world, because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness (Soul).
A Gnani has realized that everything is consciousness (Brahman). There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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