Those Gurus who claim themselves to be Self-realized are in the prison of ignorance.+

Those Gurus who claim themselves to be Self-realized are in the prison of ignorance. Those who follow such Gurus are following the path of ignorance.

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

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

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

Renunciation of worldly life taking sannyasa and surrendering to Guru is the religious and yogic idea.

Remember this, religion and yoga have nothing to do with spirituality.

If you want to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana you have to renounce religion and yoga, not your worldly life.

Religion and yoga are a great obstacle to the realization of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is ignorance.

Some modern Gurus talk of surrendering to the Self without knowing what the Self is supposed to be in actuality.

Surrendering to any religious idea of God, physical Guru, or Godmen is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Surrender implies duality. Duality is merely an illusion.

The concept of surrendering to a Guru is a religious fable. The religious path is not the path of truth or Brahman. The Soul, the Self, is the true Guru.

Truth- realization is true surrender. The form, time, and space are made out of a single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Consciousness is real and the form, time, and space are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Realizing consciousness as the ultimate reality is the Truth-realization is Self-realization or God-realization.

By getting rid of the ignorance the surrender happens on its own.

The Self cannot be realized by following some Guru, the study of the scriptures, or by intelligence, nor by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained reason. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form.

By visiting the Ashram, ignorance will not vanish. By glorifying the Guru or surrendering to the Guru you will not get Advaitic Gnana.

All religious and yogic paths are meant for the ignorant crowd, not for those who are searching for the truth of their true existence.

People think, by blind devotion and unquestioning obedience to the Guru and by surrendering to the Guru they get enlightenment.

They lose the independent thinking power, time, effort, and hard-earned savings in the hope of realizing God.

People are emotionally vulnerable and “brainwashed and psychologically seduced,” by the myth propagated by religion and yoga.

The seeker of truth must be “too smart” to ever fall into the trap of religious propagated myth. The so-called enlightened Gurus who promise instant enlightenment for money are not Gnanis.

The seeker of truth has to be very careful if he is seeking truth nothing but the truth. Everyone pursuing or thinking of pursuing the path of wisdom need not fall into the trap of a physical Guru.

Devotion to a physical Guru is the devotional path not the path of wisdom. Religious people follow the path of Bhakti and the yogic path.

The path of wisdom is only for those who are serious in their quest for truth. Without an intense urge, it is difficult to tread the path of wisdom.

So many scandals of the fake Gurus have been exposed in recent times. The darker side of modern Gurudom of fake Gurus and yogis so embarrassing~ sometimes vicious or criminal~ reports which they prefer to hide.

If one is seeking the truth, nothing but the truth, then he has to keep in mind, that the truth cannot be bought in the spiritual supermarket.:~Santthosh Kumaar