A person who declares himself as Self-realized is not Self-realized, because he is unaware of the fact that he is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul.
A person who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will never declare he is self-realized. If a person says he is Self-realized, he is still ignorant.
Upanishad says:~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e., no Gnana.
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.
A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani, nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with his fellow seekers.
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.
There is no liberation for a person of mere bookish knowledge, however well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.
Even friends and family members of a Gnani will not know him as the Gnani. Due to ignorance, people will not be able to recognize a Gnani. Outwardly, the Gnani behaves as an ordinary person behaves.
A Gnani talks and jokes like others, but he is not understood as he really is. People may regard him as an exceptional person, but only a few can recognize him as a Gnani.
Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).
Thus, it proves that the intellectual who declares himself to be self-realized, the religious Gurus and yogis, are not Gnanis because they identify themselves as holy people: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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