Do not search for Guru in the world in which you exist. God is the innermost Self Guru is the Soul, the Self. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
As the truth of the Self is hidden by the ‘I’ it requires for its extraction competent instruction, excavation, the removal of ignorance.
People refuse to accept anything other than their Gurus words. For them, their Gurus 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 the dualistic illusion or Maya.
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. Investigating the mind, alone leads to Self-realization.
To know what is the mind profits much rather than searching the truth in the external world moving from one ashram to another and one Guru to another and one mountain to another. When one starts investigating the universe that confronts him will mentally move inwards and will reach the ultimate end and become fully aware of “What is truth?” and “What is untruth?” in his own home or city and establish in truth by realizing what is the untruth.
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 the 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.
Remember:~
If you want to know what is this the world in which you exist in actuality then you must know its illusory nature.
If you change your ‘I know the attitude and indulge in deeper self-search you will be able to discover the truth, which is hidden by the world in which you exist.
Katha Upanishad says ~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch~ II-5 P-14)
Those who indulge in a perverted argument from their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth.
All the gurus think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth.
You are stuck up with some Gurus and their teaching you are like stagnant water of the dirty pond. Till you are stuck up with the idea that you get instant enlightenment from some enlightenment then you are hallucinating.
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.”
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 the 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.
Come out of your prison of emotion. Be independent. Sit think, reason, and reflect deeply.
You need to read or hear the words of wisdom of Advaita. Remember The Soul is the only reality and the world in which you exist is an illusion.
Reason and reflect upon the words of wisdom of Advaita constantly. Give up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness alone, is real and the world in which you exist is an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, the Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God or God in truth.
That is why Sage Sankara: ~ “Brahman is the truth. The world is unreal everything is truly Brahman and nothing else has any value.
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. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
