There is no need to condemn Gurus, but there is a need to highlight how they become an obstacle to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.+

There is no need to condemn Gurus, but there is a need to highlight how they become an obstacle to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

By condemning the religious Gurus and yogis and the religion, the ignorance will not vanish but the seeker of truth must know their falsity for his own information not to indulge in condemning them. The religious and yogic paths are meant for the ignorant populace.

As per the scriptures, the three "Ashrams" or stages in life were originally intended for three grades of intelligence thus: ~

1. Religion: low intellects had to do 'karmas' works, ritual actions, chanting of mantras indulging in bhajans and prayers, etc.

2. Middle intellects: Yoga: taking yellow robes, going to caves, ashrams, etc.

3. High intellects: wisdom who wanted the truth is concerned with no external rites or sanyasa but depends solely on intelligent inquiry for their path.

Everyone is free to choose his path according to his taste and satisfaction which makes them feel happy.

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.

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.”

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.

As the truth of the ‘Self is hidden by the ‘I’ it requires for its extraction, competent instruction, excavation, and the removal of ignorance.

Investigating the mind alone leads to Self-realization. To know what this mind profits much rather than searching the truth in the external world moving from one ashram to another one Guru to another and one mountain to another.

When one starts investigating the universe that confronts him then he will be able to move mentally inwards and will reach the ultimate end and become fully aware of “What is the truth?” and “What is untruth?” in his own home or city and establish in truth by realizing what is the untruth.

People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything else other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such mindsets are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth nothing but the uncontradictable truth.

The transparent truth of the Self is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.

The transparent Truth of the ‘Self’ is to be attained through constantly reading, reasoning, and reflecting on the Advaitic words of wisdom followed by reflection, meditation, and so forth, but not through perverted discussion and arguments.

All the penances are external because they are based on individuality.

Nothing is real but the Soul. Nothing Matters but love for the Soul. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is everywhere and pervades everything in the domain of form, time, and space.

The Soul is hidden within the form, time, and space and it is beyond the form, time, and space. The Soul alone is and the form, time, and space are merely an illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar