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 Soul, the ‘Self’ is your Sadguru. It is only the inner Sadguru that will walk with you to the goal, for it is the goal.
Thus, glorifying Gurus’ form is erroneous, because the body and the universe are a myth on the ultimate standpoint. Thus, indulging glorifying and worshipping of myth becomes the greatest obstacle to the pursuit of truth.
The seeker of truth has to identify the Soul, the Self as a Guru and proceed in his spiritual endeavour. The inner grace of the inner Guru (Self) will guide until the ignorance disappears and one realizes the body and the universe are a mere an illusion created out of the Soul which is present in the form of the consciousness
Religious or yogic Gurus propagate that, once a seeker identifies a Guru, he must totally surrender to the Guru and then from there onwards, the spiritual journey is fully the Guru's responsibility, not his... Hence, the importance to choose the right Guru is necessary, but in the pursuit of truth, the Guru is not necessary, because the truth is not theoretical. Truth has to be ascertained by the seeker on his own through Soul centric reasoning.
The one who identifies himself as a swami, a Guru or yogi, is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi. Swami, Guru, pundit or yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path, not to the path of wisdom.
Sage Sankara's commentary: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman (Self-realized or Gnani) wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behaviour."
~ When the knower of Brahman wears no signs -- it means he does not identify himself as a Guru or a teacher.
Yogis and Gurus are not Gods.
This idea of worshipping Guru as God is not Vedic idea but adopted from Jainism and Buddhism.
Vedas bars 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.":~ (Yajurveda 40:9.)
Then why to 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.
No one has ever seen God by practising religion or yoga or indulging in glorifying the religious God and Goddesses because God exists prior to the form, time, and space. The form, time, and space ceases to exist as a reality when wisdom dawns.
Thus, the Gods and Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is God in truth. Thus, the Self-realization is the only way to God realization.
By worshipping the religious Gods and Gurus, one will not get Self-realization or God-realization. The Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what. Thus, there is no other Guru other than the Soul. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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