Advaitic Gnana is nothing to do with the Gurus, yogis, philosophers, pundits, and priests.+

Sage Sankara is the father of Advaitic wisdom. All the seekers of truth have to bow with gratitude to the great Sage for the gift of the treasure of Advaita to humanity.

A Gnani never thinks of his body as a body and the world in which he exists as the world but he is fully aware they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. For a Gnani, the universe in which he exists is no longer a reality.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

A Gnani works for the upliftment of humanity from ignorance.

When Jesus came to his village he was very surprised - the people of the village didn't bother with him at all. Jesus has said a prophet is never respected in his own country. What is the reason? Why won't the village respect its prophet? The village people have seen him as the son of the carpenter Joseph, saw him carrying wood, saw him planing wood, saw him sawing wood, saw him bathed in sweat, saw him playing and fighting in the streets. The people of the village have known him since childhood, have seen him there as a seed. How is it possible that he suddenly becomes the son of God! No, those who saw the seed cannot accept the flower. They say there must be some fraud, some cheating; this man is a hypocrite.

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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.

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A Gnani is not recognized by the people because he does not identify himself with religion nor he wears a religious robe.

All the Gurus and yogis are holy people who belong to religion and yoga, not spirituality. Advaitic Gnana is nothing to do with the Gurus, yogis, philosophers. pundits, and priests.

Advaitic Gnana is not for those who believe in religion, religious Gods, and are stuck up with religious rituals and ceremonies. Religious believers are not truth-seekers because they have accepted their religious propagated blind faith or blind belief as to the ultimate truth.

Advaitic Gnana is knowledge of the Spirit, the God in truth. God in truth is Advaita, the one without the Second.

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

A Gnani never identifies himself as a 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.

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.

If you are trying to become a Guru or Monk then you are unfit to acquire Self -knowledge. Someone posing as a Gnani, because he is some Gurus’ a direct disciple cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis. A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu, or a yogi or some Guru’s disciple.

Different Gurus and teachers are pointing out the understanding of the Advaitic truth from different standpoints. All such understanding of Advaita is on dualistic perspective accumulated from here and there.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

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

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

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.:~Santthosh Kumaar