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

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 One need not retire from his business or corporate job and become a Guru all these religious and yogic propagated outdated ideas have to be discarded in order to realize the truth of the true existence.

Do not become a slave to all these outdated religious and yogic ideas; they are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth.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

The Atmic path is your own path. You have to tread the path alone to reach it alone Finally, nothing remains as reality other than the Atman or the Soul.

Stop your emotionally and sentimentally getting stuck with the Guru.

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

Sage Sankara was a Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. You have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is totally 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 to be 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 Yogi.

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

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

Thus, searching the truth in illusion with the illusory self, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion.

The illusion is created and sustained and finally dissolves as consciousness.

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

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sanyasa or wearing religious robes, 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; he should primarily reflect on the Soul, the Self, not on the ‘I’.

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

Sruti 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 of the Soul, the Self with the Brahman, is a Gnani, one who is liberated even while embodied. Such realization should not and cannot just be a literal understanding of Upanishadic Mahavakyas. :~Santthosh Kumaar