It is not you who has to get rid of ignorance because you and your experience of the world are the product of ignorance.+

Ignorance will not vanish without Advaitic wisdom. It is not you who has to get rid of ignorance because you and your experience of the world are the product of ignorance.

The Soul, the Self is in ignorance of its own true nature. Only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the Soul, the innermost Self, awake from the sleep of ignorance.

When the Soul remains in its own awareness of its own nondual true nature, there is no division in the Soul or consciousness, there is unity in diversity.

The Gurus who advise getting rid of ignorance first must realize the fact that it is not the man who is in ignorance, but it is the Soul, which is in ignorance.

The world in which man exists is the product of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes the world in which man exists never remains as a reality because the Soul, which is the cause of the world alone is the eternal reality.

Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the Self from the cage of the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

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 you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

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.”

Thus, it is necessary to realize ‘what is what’ to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The gurus who think the Self is within the body are propagating a half-baked knowledge. Their views and judgments of Advaita are based on a dualistic perspective. Only those who can view and judge the three states from a non-dualistic perspective have perfect knowledge.

All accumulated Advaitic knowledge accumulated from different gurus will not yield the truth because they are not the verified truth. The seeker has to do his homework to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar