Do not search for Guru in the world in which you exist. Guru is the Self. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
As the truth of the ‘Self is hidden by the ‘I’, it requires for its extraction competent instruction, excavation, and the removal of ignorance.
People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.
Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth, nothing but the uncontradictable truth.
The transparent truth of the Self is hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion (universe).
The transparent truth of the Self is to be attained through constantly reading, reasoning, and reflecting on the Advaitic words of wisdom, followed by reflection, meditation, and so forth, but not through perverted discussion and arguments.
It is for the seeker to go on his own and remove all the obstacles that are blocking the realization of the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, God, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal God, and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Remember:~
All the Advaitic Gurus of the East and the West are based on a dualistic perspective. The dualistic knowledge is egocentric. All egocentric Advaita or nonduality is based on the imagination. All imagined Advaita will not help to cross the domain of form, time, and space.
The egocentric knowledge keeps the Soul in the intoxication of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ hides the whole truth. The Gurus and the teachers of the nonduality of the east and west are stuck with their own accepted truth gathered from here and there, and their egoic attitude blocks them, by realizing the Advaita hidden by the Dvaita, which is present in the form of the ‘I’.
Mundaka Upanishads: ~ So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children, “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)
Scriptures are not needed in pursuit of truth. Even the Upanishads and the Advaitic Sages declare the same.
Ashtavakra:~There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures-just a collection of words.
The seeker should not bother about finding the meaning of what is written in the scriptures.
The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures by realizing the Self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity, but the Self is formless Soul,l which is present in the form of consciousness. In the realm of truth, the form, time, and space are created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness.
Realizing the single stuff as the ultimate truth is Self-realization or truth realization. To realize this truth, there is no need for scriptures.
The ultimate truth has to be realized first; then only is it possible to know what the scriptures are saying.
That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC 56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by good work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.
58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.
59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.
60. The Scriptures, consisting of many words, are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.
Advaita is the nature of the Soul. Advaita is second to none. Advaita is universal wisdom that reveals on its own to all the serious and sincere seekers of truth.
The real Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is Soulcentric knowledge. The Self-knowledge, or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, is Soulcentric knowledge that destroys ignorance.
The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. Those who have chosen the path of wisdom, there is no need to follow a Guru or worship the Guru as God.
The ‘Self’ is bodiless because the ‘Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The ‘Self’, not you but the ‘Self’, is the Soul. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.
You and your Guru exist within the dualistic illusion. Performing the Pada Pooja (feet worship) to Advaitin Gurus, you will not get Advaitic wisdom.
A Guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas the Advaitic Sage Sri Sankara declares the world as unreal. Therefore, how actions performed in the unreal world can get moksha or freedom. Therefore, there is a need to know the fact that you are not the Self but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, to understand, assimilate, and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.
People think that when they meet a Guru, they get instant enlightenment because many people have experienced it. Such instant enlightenment is not wisdom but a hallucination.
And such enlightenment or any experience of that sort is temporary. There is no doubt that people must have experienced, but what they experienced is a mere hallucination. Experience implies duality. Experience is possible within the form, time, and space.
The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
A guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge.
Sage Sankara clearly indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).
So, Sage Sankara clearly indicates that a Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man," then why hold Gurus and Yogis who identify themselves as holy men?
A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru, a Yogi, or a disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.
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.
In Self-awareness, ignorance vanishes, and the unreal nature of form, time, and space is exposed. In Self-awareness (in the midst of duality), the body is not considered as the body, the ego is not considered as ego, the world is not considered as the world, because everything is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness (Soul).
A Gnani has realized that everything is consciousness (Brahman). For a Gnani, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.
Advaita is universal. Advaita is not for sale. Do not buy Advaita from the spiritual supermarket. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.
Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita.
Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge, you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self shines on its own awareness when wisdom dawns.
The Advaita is the Soul, the cause and the support of all that exists, as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God, the Self.
The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe. From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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