Your physical guru is part and parcel of the illusory universe, which is the product of ignorance.+

Your physical guru is part and parcel of the illusory universe, which is the product of ignorance.

Sticking to your physical guru emotionally is sticking to ignorance. Worshiping your physical guru is worshipping ignorance,

you have to drop everything which connected to the illusory universe realizing them as illusory.

If you hold to your physical guru as a holy man then your journey is incomplete.

That is why Sage Sankara says A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man”.

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

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live 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. : ~ Santthosh