Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man." Select Works of Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."
So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as a Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.
Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.
Thus, it proves that Sage Sankara meant, taking sanyasa and wearing the religious robes to earn bread. Sanyasa is not a qualification to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana
Remember:~
Religion encourages one who can induce himself to feel convinced that he has realized the Self, or has an admirer who believes that he has done so, then it opens up for him the way for the founding of a new sect based on Guru-worship.
People, too, have developed curious credulousness. Often, they would install an earnest seeker and devotee, or a pious saint, on the throne of God and begin to offer him worship and homage, even if he protested and resisted such acts. They would lie prostrate, sing hymns, wave lights (arati) and burn incense before him, and present to him food which was to be returned by him as Prasada, wash his toes, and sip the wash. At times, the disciple would go to the length of getting food, fruit, or a betel-nut leaf chewed by him, and taking the morsel back from it.
They would place his photo in the private temples of their homes and perform all these rites and ceremonies that are usually offered to temple idols. In this way, there might be at present in our country scores of individuals who are worshiped as living God, with the following varying in numbers.
If one is seeking truth, one has to drop all the religious dogmas and blind beliefs, ritualistic baggage, and move forward in their pursuit of truth.
Remember:~
Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in glorifying the Gurus and worship them as Gods.
When one goes into the annals of history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudapada was lost or mutilated by the orthodoxy because the orthodoxy's preaching and practice do not match. Orthodoxy talks of Advaita, but their practice is dualistic.
The orthodoxy has nothing to do with Advaita because they are based on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world, whereas Advaita is based on the Soul, which is ever birthless and deathless, and wordless.
There is no use of prostration to holy sandals of the Guru or indulging in Pada Pooja (feet worship) when the inner Guru is the invisible Soul, the Self, which is ever formless.
The guru who identifies with his experience of birth, life, death, and the world, and the disciple who worships his guru’s body, will remain ignorant of the truth beyond form, time, and space.
Without getting rid of ignorance, they will never get freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion as reality.
People think that prostrating to a religious Guru, adoring which the worst poverty-stricken have turned out to be great possessors of wealth, and even the mutes have turned out to be great masters of speech, are ideas based on the dualistic perspective is meant for the ignorant populace that accepts the world as a reality.
From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion.
People think that prostrating to the physical Guru, which serves as the downpour of water to put out the fire of misfortunes, removes the groups of distress of those who prostrate to them.
The devotion to the physical Guru and grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.
All religious beliefs have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The devotion to the physical Guru and the grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.
A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and become free from experiencing the illusory duality as a reality.
Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis when Vedas bar human worship: ~
Yajur Veda
Translation 3
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."- [Yajur Veda 40:9.]
Then why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS (human form) in place of God when the Veda bars such activities, and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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