The Monistic path is the path of ignorance because it is based on the false Self within the illusory universe or Maya.+

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana arises when one indulges in deeper discrimination between the real and unreal.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana annihilates all ignorance. Without the Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana Advaitic Self -awareness is impossible.

Orthodoxy unanimously holds chief means of attaining Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is sannyasa, which means the renunciation of all action and worldly desires, to be an essential element of spiritual contemplation.

Nevertheless, indifference to practical life within the practical world, control of senses, eagerness to attain salvation, places, and time without distraction, and other factors are necessary, in the path of orthodoxy. But in the path of wisdom or reason, the sannyasa or monkhood is a great obstacle because the sannyasa and the world are merely an illusion from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self.

People who believe the sannyasa or monkhood as the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana are taking the wrong path.

The orthodox view is based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking) because the orthodoxy holds the experience of birth, life, death, and the world (waking) as reality.

Those who attained the monastic knowledge are unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The Monastic path is the path of ignorance because it is based on the false Self within the illusory universe or Maya. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar