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

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 says he is enlightened is not a Gnani. The ‘Self’ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. How can you and the world in which you exist remain when the ‘Self’ gets enlightenment? Only the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

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."

Manduka Upanishads:~ Even the Gods cannot find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Those who identify themselves as a swami, a Guru or a yogi is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi. The Swami, Guru, pundit or the yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.

That is why Sage Sri, Sankara's commentary:~ Page 489: "The knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs.

Page 500 asks in effect, Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior." When the knower of Brahman wears no signs ~ it means he does not identify himself as a Guru.

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

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. Know the ‘Self’ not you, and what is hidden beyond the form, time, and space will be disclosed to you.

The feat of a Guru, touching people and thus putting them into mystic states is purely a physical or at best a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions it has nothing to do with epistemology, with the question of truth. The truth is not physical because the ultimate truth is the Soul or the Spirit. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar