Advaitic Gnana can be transmitted neither from outside nor from another person. Guru of everyone is only the Soul the Self that is always revealing on its own.
The grace of the Guru is only the grace of the Soul. It is the Soul, the God in truth is unceasingly revealing its existence. This revelation is always going on naturally in every serious seeker."
Advaitic Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realized by the seeker on his own. The Gnana Guru of everyone is only the Soul the ‘Self’ that is always revealing its own is the seeker is receptive and serious in quest of truth.
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.
A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as 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.
There is no liberation for a person of mere bookish -knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.
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.
Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).
Thus, it proves that the intellectual pundits who declare themselves they are self-realized, the religious Gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.
Remember:~
Everyone’s individual experiences are not the same. Some are so much immersed in materiality, religion, duty-bound towards their family and society, and they will not be attracted to the path of wisdom or understand and assimilate the Advaitic truth because they accepted the world (dualistic illusion) as a reality whereas the Sage Sankara says the world is merely an illusion.
Many are good at acrobatics with words, but their knowledge is limited to the domain of form, time, and space. When the inner work is in progress then the realization will happen as the conviction about the Soul, the Self, becomes firm.
~ Jesus meant ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit.
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