If you are seeking truth know must not cling to any physical Guru or his teaching. +

If you emotionally and sentimentally hold on to the physical Guru as a guide you will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion to nondualistic reality.  

The idea of having a Guru itself blocks you from realizing the Self, which is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

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.”

The one who thinks of himself as a Guru and the one who thinks of himself as a chela (disciple) will not be able to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because both of them accepted themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, and knowledge are based on the false Self.  

Therefore, the Guru–Shisya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth.  That is why Gnanis never accepted himself as a Guru or accepted anyone as his disciple because he is fully immersed in Self-awareness.  There is no place for it in reality. 

There was no division in his consciousness even though he was in the midst of a division of form, time, and space.    

By surrendering to any physical Guru or God men, is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   The concept of surrendering to Guru is a religious fable. The religious path is not the path of truth or Brahman. 

The Soul the innermost Self, is the true Guru. The Seeker has to surrender to the Self by realizing the fact that, the Self is not physical. 

By realizing the Self is not physical, he will be able to drop all the accumulated knowledge and inherited conditioning in the midst of duality and he finds freedom from experiencing the duality (waking) as reality. 

There is only oneness in reality. There is no scope for duality in Advaitic reality.   

Remember:~

Sage Sankara does not believe in the book. Sage Sankara denies the authority of any book over any other book. He denies emphatically any one book contains all the truths about Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, the Self is the ultimate reality.

It is impossible to realize the Self through bookish knowledge. A feeling of profound respect for the physical Guru is still more difficult to uphold.

If you are seeking truth know must not cling to any physical Guru or his teaching.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89):

You should not make any man or woman an object of worship. If you have accepted the Atmic path then there is no need for books, no need for a physical Guru, no need to worship a religious God no need for any rituals.

Nothing is needed other than realizing the Self is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani:- VC- 56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.

The seeker must first know the Soul is the only reality and that the world in which he exists is an illusion.

The seeker must reason upon this truth from all points of view and up all further argumentation and realize the truth. This realization comes from being certain that the Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or is real and the world in which he exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

By remembering ‘I AM ‘the ignorance will not vanish because the ‘I AM it, itself is ignorance.

Remember: ~

The Self is not you. You are not eternal because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The Soul, the Self is eternal. The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

It is foolish to say I AM THIS or I AM THAT’ because the ‘Self ‘is not ‘I’. The ‘Self is the Soul, which witnesses the ‘I’.

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.

Even after knowing the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ people are stuck to ‘I-centric teaching and Gurus. Those who are stuck with ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ will never be able to get rid of ignorance. : ~Santthosh Kumaar