Some Gurus and Self-declared Godmen say: "I am God." This presupposes that they have the same miraculous and creative powers of God. They do not, however, display possession of such power. Such is the fallacy of their logic.
The Gurus who declare “I am God or “I am Brahman" is merely repeating like parrot words which they have read in the scriptures or heard. It does not prove that they have realized the ultimate truth or God or Brahman or God in truth.
You are not God. The Soul the ‘Self’ is God in truth. It is not correct to say I am God God or I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? only Brahman or God in truth alone remains, not I.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16
From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the ‘I’ is an illusion, which appears and disappears.
It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
To understand the false nature of the ‘I’, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary.
The Self is not ‘I’, but the Self is the Soul which is the witness of the ‘I’. By holding the’ Self’ ‘I' leads to hallucination based on the imagination.
Those who are stuck with the ‘I’ based teaching never be able to cross the domain of the form, time, and space.
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With bookish or hearsay knowledge it is unable to prove that everything is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. One has to do lots of homework to realize the Soul, the Self.
A Guru who speaks of knowing Brahman within the body is thinking only of his head or heart, i.e. of his body. He is hallucinating.
Some religious Gurus give medicinal herbs and cured people, the latter then fall into the fallacy of attributing their cure to the Swami's spiritual power, status, or greatness. Those Gurus may have expert knowledge of herbs, but that does not prove they are Gnanis.
The stories of nonbeliever coming to a Guru denouncing him as the deceiver, and then suddenly being converted to faith in him are easily explicable. Both attitudes are merely emotional. One emotion succeeded another; it is in the nature of emotion to change. People are emotionally carried off their feet when they first visit a famous Guru.
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Gurus who glorify themselves as God and collect money by promising people instant realization are frauds.
Whoever speaks of knowing Brahman within us is thinking only of his body. He is hallucinating about getting instant realization because he is an intellectual. He thinks he has read and understood everything.
Gurudom is nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Religious Gurus are concerned with the welfare of humanity to propagate love, peace, harmony, and compassion to the populace.
Humanity belongs to the dualistic illusion. Spirituality is beyond the dualistic illusion.
Mixing religion and spirituality is like mixing oil and water. Religion is nothing to do with spirituality. Religion is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~Santthosh Kumaar
