Those Gurus who indulge head and heart game keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.+

The spiritual heart is the invisible Soul, the Self, not the physical heart. The world in which you exist is created out of the invisible Soul, the spiritual heart.

Mistaking the spiritual heart within the physical body is a great error.

Even some Advaitic Gurus say that the Self is within the spiritual heart. And the spiritual heart is on the left side. Such a declaration is merely an imagination, based on the false self (ego).

When the ‘Self’ is bodiless, then the question of the heart being left-sided or right-sided does not arise.

The Seeker must realize that the Soul, the Self, itself is the spiritual heart. The Soul, the spiritual heart, is ever formless.

The invisible Soul itself is the spiritual heart that is present in the form of the Spirit or Consciousness.

Without the form, time, and space, the invisible Soul, the Self, becomes naked. The nature of the invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Remember:~

The Self is not within the human heart. The world in which you exist hides the invisible and unborn Soul, which is the Spiritual heart.

Those who are stuck up with head and heart will not be able to unfold the mystery of their true existence.

When you realize the Self is not the body, then the question of the Self within the heart does not arise. The poets use the word heart to indicate the center of existence.

When the whole universe is created out of the Soul, Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, still, you are thinking the Self is within the human heart; you are not a wise seeker.

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Those Gurus who indulge the head and heart game keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.

Some gurus propagate that the Nadi you refer to is called Amrita Nadi. It connects the Spiritual Heart with the Sahasrara. It is best to merge in the Heart and then see that the Heart is beyond time and space.

But remember:~

When the ‘Self’ is not the body, then the question of the Nadi or Amrita Nadi, or Sahasrara, does not arise.

Until we think the ‘Self’ is within the body, it is impossible to cross the threshold of dualistic illusion.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the ‘Self’ is not the body, so why bring Nadi, chakras when they are part and parcel of the body.

Deeper self-search reveals that the ‘Self’ is neither the body nor the ‘I’. Thus, one has to go beyond the ‘I’ - means beyond the form, time, and space : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

First, know what the ‘Self’ is supposed to be in actuality.+

Bhagavad Gita Krishna says: ~It is only one amongst thousands of people who strive for spiritual salvation. Even amongst such seekers, it is only the rare person who gets to know the “Self” correctly.’ (7.3)

First, know what the Self is supposed to be in actuality. Simply saying ‘I AM without the body is an error because the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the witness of the coming and going, of the ‘I’.

Till you hold the ‘Self ‘as the ‘I’, you will never be able to get Self-realization. The ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is the 'Self'.

What is this 'I'?

The 'I’ is ignorance.

The ‘I’ is the duality.

The ‘I’ is the form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is the universe.

The ‘I’ is the waking.

The ‘I’ is the dream.

The ‘I’ is the illusion.

The ‘I’ is the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

Remember:~

Without the ‘I’, there is no ignorance.

Without the ‘I’, there is no duality.

Without the ‘I’, there is no form, time, or space.

Without the ‘I’, there is no universe.

Without the ‘I’, there is no waking.

Without the ‘I’, there is no dream.

Without the ‘I’, there is no illusion.

Without the ‘I’, there is no experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say ‘I', if you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

It is time to discard the ‘I’. Never use the word ‘I’ or I AM for the Self. Use the word 'Self only for the 'Self'.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Sage Sankara is Jagadguru for the ignorant populace and Brahma Gnani for the seeking world.+

Sage Sankara is Jagadguru for the ignorant populace and Brahma Gnani for the seeking world.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom has nothing to do with orthodox belief systems. Sage Sankara is the only sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Religion has nothing to do with Advaita. The Advaitic sect belongs to the religion. Advaita is pure Spirituality or Adyathma.

The Advaitic sect is dualistic, and it has nothing to do with the Advaitic truth, which is hidden by the illusion. Mixing religion and spirituality is like mixing oil and water.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the politicians as useful.

Religion and its sects are based on form, time, and space, whereas Spirituality is based on the Atman, the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Religions hold birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. From the ultimate standpoint, the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The seeker must know the difference between religion and Spirituality. Many people think the religion as Spirituality.

Spirituality leads to discovering the truth that is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

Advaita is universal. Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom has nothing to do with the orthodox belief systems. Some philosophers in the past dissented from this interpretation of Vedanta philosophy, holding that the incarnated Souls were separate from the Divine Essence and only finally merged with it after the cycles of birth.

All these theoretical philosophies are based on the imagination, based on the false self (ego or you) within the false experience (waking).

Orthodox people argue that Sage Sankara had a Guru. Sage Sankara himself was a Guru.

Yes, for orthodox people, he is Jagadguru, but for the seeker of truth, he is a Brahma Gnani.

The traditionally religious people are so entangled in orthodox religiosity; it is very difficult for them to free themselves from narrow-minded prejudices and dogmas, and superstitions.

These educated orthodox people are more ignorant than the illiterate. They strongly stuck to their inherited orthodox baggage meant for the ignorant populace.

Even though their own Sage has said that orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace, they ignore it, and they are like the blind led by the blind, following the inherited blind belief.

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa's disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but the Soul.”

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The Guru and Guru paramparas are meant for the first audience, to help lead their followers along the way. However, there is no need to follow any parampara and follow any Guru, those who wish to realize the truth which is beyond form, time, and space.

We should not mix religion with spirituality because religion is based on the ego, and spirituality is based on the invisible or unborn Soul.

Religion is concerned with its paramparas, not truth, whereas spirituality is concerned only with the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. Religion is not Spirituality.

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

The above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread and belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as a Guru with a parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

When Sage Sankara says, the Knower of the Atman (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.

From the Advaitic perspective, 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.

The seekers of truth need not identify Sage Sankara as a holy man or Jagadguru, but as a Brahma Gnani.

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.

The Guru Parampara is for the religious people. There is no need for a Guru who wants to tread the path of wisdom.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

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A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. Those who have chosen the path of wisdom there is no need to follow Guru or worship the Guru as God.+

The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. For those who have chosen the path of wisdom, there is no need to follow a Guru or worship the Guru as God.

The invisible Soul Self is bodiless because the invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Self, not you but the Self, is the invisible Soul. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

You and your Guru exist within the dualistic illusion. Performing the Pada Pooja (feet worship) to Advaitin Gurus, you will not get Advaitic wisdom.

A Guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas the Advaitic Sage Sankara declares the world as unreal. How actions performed in an unreal world can get moksha or freedom.

There is a need to know that you are not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul to understand and assimilate, and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

People think that when they meet a Guru, they get instant enlightenment because many people have experienced it. Such instant enlightenment is not wisdom but a hallucination. And such enlightenment or any experience of that sort is temporary.

There is no doubt that people must have experienced, but what they experienced is merely a hallucination. Experience implies duality. Experience is possible within form, time, and space.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge.

Sage Sankara indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Sage Sankara indicates that A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man. Yogis and gurus who identify themselves as holy men are not Gnanis

From the Advaitic perspective, 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.

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.

In Self-awareness, ignorance vanishes, and the unreal nature of form, time, and space is exposed. '

In Self-awareness (in the midst of duality), the body is not considered as a body, the ego is not considered as ego, the world is not considered as the world, because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness (Soul).

A Gnani has realized that everything is consciousness (Brahman). There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is different.+

One need not renounce worldly life and become a sanyasi or monk. One need not retire from their business or corporate job and become a Guru; all these religious and yogic propagated outdated ideas have to be discarded to realize the truth of true existence.

Do not become a slave of all these outdated religious and yogic ideas; they are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth.

There is no need to follow anyone. Self-realization becomes easy if you independently walk your path.

Atmic path is your path. You have to tread the path alone to reach it alone, finally, nothing remains as reality other than the Atma or Soul, or Spirit.

The seeker has to stop getting emotionally and sentimentally stuck with the physical Gurus if he is seeking nothing but the truth.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha: ~ “Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is different.

Out of a million people, perhaps one is a Gnani. Most of the Self-realized decide to remain silent, seeing the difficulty that whatever they have realized is impossible to convey in any possible way to others; seeing that not only is it difficult to convey, it is bound to be misunderstood too.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani; he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others. A Gnani is not a religious person or a Yogi.

One need not roam from one mountain to another, one ashram to another, or meet gurus or yogis to get Gnana. One can get Gnana and become a Gnani wherever one lives.

We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, searching the truth in the illusion with the illusory ‘Self’, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained, and finally, it dissolves as consciousness.

There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God in truth

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sanyasa or wearing religious robes or by mastering the scriptures or by identifying with the religious symbol.

Religious robes and religious symbols are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Blind faith is an obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The seeker should not waste his time on it; he should primarily reflect on the invisible Soul, the Self, not on the ‘I’.

The invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness), is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Shruti says ~ "brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati" - He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman Itself. In the Advaita understanding of this statement, the "becoming" is only metaphorical. It is not as if something that was not Brahman suddenly becomes Brahman. Rather, "realizing Brahman" means a removal of the ignorance about one's own essential nature as Brahman. Thus, to "know Brahman" is to "be Brahman".

The one who has realized the identity with the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’ with the Brahman, is a Gnani, one who is liberated even while embodied. Such a realization should not and cannot just be a literal understanding of the Upanishadic Mahavakya.

Remember:~

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma a) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance. Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. '

All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance.

Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshiping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance.+

You and your physical Guru belong to the domain of duality. The duality is merely an illusion.

By emotionally sticking to physical Guru within the dualistic illusion (world) becomes a great obstacle in realizing the Self, hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshipping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance. Surrendering to your physical Guru is surrendering to ignorance.

If you are seeking truth, you have to get rid of the idea of the Guru propagated in the past by the gurus of the religious and yogic path.

That is why 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.” Yogis and gurus are not Gods.

This idea of worshiping the Guru as God is not a Vedic idea but was adopted from Jainism and Buddhism.

Vedas bars human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~ "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.":~ (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when 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.

Thus, Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality.

All the Guru worships belong to religion and yoga, not Spirituality.

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread and belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani)

~ Then why stick to a Guru who is not a Gnani?

Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, which is the real God. Thus, Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshiping the Gurus as God, you will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

The invisible Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

The world in which you and Guru exist is the product of ignorance. If there is no ignorance, then the world in which you and your Guru exist ceases to exist as a reality.

When reality appears, this ignorance, which one thinks of as reality, becomes unreal.

The ultimate truth has to be realized first without any philosophy; only then is it possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Reality is simply the loss of ignorance. Until the ignorance is there, the body, ego, and the world exist as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes, then the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own nondual awareness. In Self-awareness, there is unity in diversity, thus, there is only oneness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Swami Vivekananda: ~None can teach you, none can make you spiritual.+

People think that their physical Guru or Gurus' grace guides them, and they have surrendered to their Guru, and it is the Guru’s responsibility; such blind acceptance leads to hallucination.

Those who think their physical Guru’s teaching is the ultimate truth will never be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara: ~ "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 a parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ “A Gnani bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

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

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa’s disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself 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 Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Those who are stuck with the idea that without a Guru and Guru's grace, it is impossible to get Self-realization are not seeking truth but are stuck in their orthodox ideas. Such a mindset is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Those who are stuck with the idea that without a Guru and Guru's grace, it is impossible to get Self-realization are not seeking truth but are stuck in their orthodox ideas. Such a mindset is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumar