By renouncing the worldly life and embarrassing sanyasa or monkhood, ignorance will not vanish but it will become more and more deep-rooted.+

By renouncing the worldly life and embarrassing sanyasa or monkhood, ignorance will not vanish but it will become more and more deep-rooted.

What is the use of taking sanyasa or becoming a monk by renouncing the worldly life when the world in which the sanyasi or monk exists itself is an illusion.

The illusion is the product of ignorance. Until ignorance vanishes the truth will not reveal.

Reasoning upon from all points of view giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth hidden by the illusion is experienced as a reality.

Advaitic realization comes from being certain that Soul, the Self is real and the world in which we exist is unreal.

Religion belongs to dualistic illusion because religion holds the false self and the illusory world as reality.

All these religious and yogic ideas are only suited for those who are not seeking truth but to those who love their religion and their religious God more than the truth hidden by ignorance.

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

A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced ignorance. :~Santthosh Kumaar