If you are seeking truth nothing but truth then you must tread the path independently without the physical Guru.+

The Guru-disciple concept belongs to religion. Gurudom has nothing to do with Spirituality. The Guru is already there. The soul, the Self is the real Guru hidden by ignorance.

That is why 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.” Yogis and Gurus are not Gods. This idea of worshiping Guru as God is not a Vedic idea but adopted from Jainism and Buddhism.

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 or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as a Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sri, Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

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.

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

Yoga Vasistha says: ~ Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only through inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

Sticking to physical Guru is sticking to ignorance.

If you are seeking truth nothing but truth then you must tread the path independently without the physical Guru.

Getting sentimentally and emotionally involved with the Guru blocks the realization of truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space.

The physical Guru belongs to form, time, and space the truth is beyond the form, time, and space. If you stick up to the physical Guru it is impossible to transcend form, time, and space. Soul, the Self will remain a prisoner in the cage of ignorance.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89)

The Gurus, yogis, and Swamis are not Gnanis. The Gurus, yogis, and Swamis have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. In the path of wisdom, the Guru is not necessary.

Advaitic truth is very simple, but it becomes very difficult if one wants to realize it through some Guru or some teaching. To realize this simple truth one need not go to any Guru, one need not lose himself in the labyrinth of philosophy; one need not spend his lifetime indulging in glorifying Gurus or religious Gods, one need not search for truth in the books, one need not renounce his family life. One has to be in the world but not in the world.

It is because of our inherited samskara or conditioning we are carrying the baggage of mental junk. We have to burn all the junk, which is blocking our realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

If one is seeking truth nothing but truth one has to drop worshiping the physical Gurus and stick to the Gurus emotionally. Glorifying the Guru and God is for those who are not seeking the truth.

Vedas bar human worship: ~

Translation 3

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal Prakriti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the Prakriti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time. "- (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and also warns people who indulge in such activities to are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

By worshiping the Gurus as Gods, the wisdom will not dawn. The person who indulges in such activities will not be able to cross the thrashed of dualistic illusion. One has to grasp, assimilate, and realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar