Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana is an imperishable and inexhaustible wealth.+

It is very difficult to find out the state of a Gnani by his external actions. Gnana is purely a mental state. It is an internal condition.

A Gnani can only understand another Gnani. Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana is an imperishable and inexhaustible wealth. The material wealth is nothing when compared to the priceless ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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".

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

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 fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi, or as someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

A Gnani is the one who has realized that the matter itself is Spirit and the matter is an illusory expression of the Spirit. A Gnani, there is no further quest. To a Gnani, there is nothing to realize because he has realized that everything is the Spirit.

To a Gnani, the world in which he exists is non-existent as a reality because the world in which he exists is nothing but the Spirit. 

A Gnani is free from experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality because he is fully aware of the Spirit, which is the cause of the dualistic illusion, and the Spirit is uncaused.

A Gnani continues to drive the point of the source with the fervor of one who knows and with the talent of expression. Only a Gnani who has directly known truly understands the Truth and can have the perseverance and passion for sharing it. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar