Everyone has to discover the truth afresh for himself by verifying all the facts.+

If someone has acquired Self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do.

Everyone has to discover afresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp assimilate and realize it until he gets a firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Select Works of Sage Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So, it proves those who are wearing religious robe it is only for the sake of bread."

A person who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and become Avadhuta and live as he wishes.

Some branded dollar-centric Gurus, teachers, and preachers dominate humanity, and they are not right people ~ not right in the sense they don't accept other than ‘what they think it as the ultimate truth. They simply go on fabricating beautiful words and theories and creating an illusion in the minds of people that perhaps they are authentic seers, enlightened people.

People emotionally get stuck with their physical Gurus. This is a great mistake. If you are seeking truth then you neither require the grace of the physical Guru nor his love, nor his blessings.

Remember this, you and your physical Guru and the world in which you exist is the dualistic illusion. If you stick to anything of the dualistic illusion, you will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion because you will never be able to come out of the grip of ignorance.

Sage Sankara: 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 (Gnani) wears no signs it means he does not identify himself as Guru or Yogi or teacher or Swami.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ Then why stick a Guru who 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.

A Gnani is neither anyone’s guru nor he is anyone’s disciple. He respects all the sages of the past, and he highlights good points in their teaching he also highlights the obstacles, which block the realization of the ultimate truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar