The truth is not physical and dualistic because the ultimate truth is the Soul or the Spirit, and nondualistic.+

Religion needs a Guru to propagate its belief system, whereas in the Atmic path, there is no need for a Guru.

The ultimate truth has to be ascertained by him alone. Yoga needs a Guru to guide its students to practice Samadhi.

Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.”

The one who says he is enlightened is not a Gnani. The Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. How can you and the world in which you exist remain when the Self gets enlightenment?

Only the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Select Works of Sage Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

Manduka Upanishads: ~ Even the Gods cannot find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Thus, that who identify themselves as a swami, a Guru, or a yogi are not Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit, or yogi.

The Swami, Guru, pundit, or the yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path, not to the path of wisdom.

That is why Sage Sankara's commentary: ~ "The knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs. (Page 489)

Page 500 asks in effect, "Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482:~ 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." When the knower of Brahman wears no signs ~ it means he does not identify himself as a Guru.

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

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. Know the Self, not ‘you’, and what is hidden beyond the form, time, and space will be disclosed to you.

The feat of a Guru, touching people and, thus, putting them into mystic states, is purely a physical or at best a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions, it has nothing to do with epistemology, with the question of truth.

The truth is not physical and dualistic because the ultimate truth is the Soul or the Spirit, and nondualistic.

The ultimate truth or Brahman has nothing to do with religion.

Religion is based on the illusory ‘I’ as a reality, whereas the ultimate truth or Brahman is beyond form, time, and space. If you are seeking truth, make sure you have chosen the right path. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar