A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. +

Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization."

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 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.

If you think you are self-realized, but you still say 'I', and if you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, you are not a Gnani. You are simply ignorant of your accumulated dualistic intellectual knowledge from here and there.

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 fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi, or someone 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.

Remember:~

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul, the Self, is God in truth. The invisible Soul remains in its own awareness, which we identify as deep sleep in the waking experience.

The waking state is the state of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes, then the Soul remains in its own awareness in the midst of duality (waking).

Man cannot see God in truth(Spirit), because man and the world in which he exists are the product of ignorance.

Man cannot see God in truth because God in truth is prior to anything that exists.

When God in truth is present, then man and his world are absent. When the man and his world are present, then God is absent.

God in truth is Advaita. God in truth is prior to any experience. Experience implies duality. In Atmic reality, there is neither experience nor experiencer.

There is no scope for two in Advaitic reality. Experience is possible only within the domain of the dualistic illusion.

The dualistic illusion is created out of the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul is God in truth.

In the domain of the invisible Soul, the real God, the dualistic illusion fades away the same way as the dream fades away when the waking takes place. : ~Santthosh Kumaar