Advaita is not some Guru's biography. Advaita is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.+

 

Swami Vivekananda: ~ Worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation.

The Gurudom may succeed to a limited extent in the West by appealing to the emotions of western people by creating a new cult with diverse theories of Hinduism. The ultimate truth is beyond religion, yoga, and scriptures.

Devotion to the physical Guru will not yield Advaitic Gnana because you and your physical gurus are part and parcel of the dualistic illusion.

You have to transcend the dualistic illusion by getting rid of ignorance through Advaitic Gnana. Advaitic Gnana comes only through a perfect understanding of ‘what is what.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, and none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but the Soul.

Sticking to physical Gurus and their teaching blocks you from realizing the truth hidden by the ‘I’.

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 the Soul.”

Religion and yoga are nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality in order to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.

The seeker must have the courage of Bhagavān Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Bhagavān Buddha rejected religion, idea of God and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

That is why Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.

Bhagavān Buddha:~ There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting.

If you are seeking truth nothing but truth then you must not get stuck to any Guru or yogi. Those who are seeking truth need not follow any Guru or any teaching.

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 by means of 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.

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

All the ‘I’-centric teachings are dualistic, and they keep the Soul permanently in the prison of ignorance.

Till you hold the ‘I’-centric gurus and teaching as ultimate, you will never be able to come out of your emotions and sentiments.

Emotions and sentiments are a hindrance in the path of wisdom. So it is necessary to come out of your emotions to move deeply to realize the truth hidden by the ‘I’.

Remember:~

Those Gurus who get worshiped themselves as God belong to religion and yoga. Religion and yoga are dualistic. Whatever belongs to dualistic belongs to the dualistic illusion.

Vedas bar human worship: ~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.":~ (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities, and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Such worship, devotion, and reverence to Gurus will never allow you to realize the ‘Self’, which is hidden by ignorance.

‘I’ is the cause of all contradictions, whereas the truth you are seeking is beyond all contradictions. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is infinite.

Holding anything from the dualistic illusion blocks you from realizing the nondualistic reality. Vedas bars worshiping anything from the illusory creation.

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.

Guru is needed in the religious and yogic path. There is no need of guru to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana : ~ Santthosh Kumaar