A person who declares himself as Self-realized is not Self-realized because he unaware of the fact that his self is not the Self but the Self is the Soul.+

 

Many people declare themselves they are Self-realized because they have taken Diksha from their Guru or they are following their guru for many years.

Those Gurus who give Diksha for Self-realization are frauds. Gnana cannot 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 of the Soul, the Self. Awareness is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

The Soul, the Self which 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.

Someone posing as a Gnani is not a Gnani. If someone poses himself as a direct disciple of some guru cannot be a Gnani.

Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis. A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu, or a yogi or some Guru’s disciple.

A Gnani helps those serious seekers individually who are ready to drop all their accumulated knowledge and start afresh. A Gnani does not call himself a Guru.

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.

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A person who declares himself as self-realized is not Self-realized because he unaware of the fact that his self is not the Self but the Self is the Soul. His self is the ego, The real Self is the Soul, which is hidden by the illusory universe.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will never declare he is self-realized. If a person says he is self-realized he is still ignorant.

If you think you are self-realized, but you still say "I," and if you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, you are not a Gnani. You are simply ignorant with your accumulated dualistic intellectual knowledge accumulated from here and there.

Upanishads say:~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e. no Gnana.

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.

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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".

Thus, it proves that the intellectual who declares himself he is self-realized, the religious Gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar