A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.
On Vedic perspective, Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in Guru Worship.
The seeker has to go beyond the religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond the belief in religious God to realize the real God hidden by ignorance.
When one goes into the annals of history it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Gaudapada was lost or mutilated by the orthodoxy because the orthodoxy preaching and practice do not match.
Orthodoxy talks of Advaita but their practice is dualistic. The orthodoxy is nothing to do with Advaita because they are based on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world whereas the Sage Sankara's wisdom is based on Soul, which is ever birthless and deathless and worldless.
There is no use of prostration to holy sandals of the Guru or indulgencing in Pada Pooja (feet worship) when the inner Guru is Soul, the ‘Self’, which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The guru who identifies with his experience of birth, life, death, and the world, and the disciple who worships his guru’s body, will remain ignorant of the truth beyond the form, time, and space. Without getting rid of the ignorance they will never get freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality.
People think prostrating to a religious Guru, adoring which the worst poverty-stricken,
have turned out to be great possessors of wealth, and even the mutes have turned out to be great masters of speech are ideas based on the dualistic perspective is meant for the ignorant populace which accepts the world as a reality. From the standpoint of the Soul, the ‘Self’, the world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion.
People think by prostrating to the physical Guru, which serves as the downpour of water to put out the fire of misfortunes, which remove the groups of distresses of those who prostrate to them. The devotion to physical Guru and which grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea. All the religious belief is nothing to with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
The devotion to physical Guru and which grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.
A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes free from experiencing the illusory duality as a reality.
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There is a need to do deeper research on Vedic religion and bifurcate the present Hindu religion, which is mixed-up with Buddhism, Jainism, and also ideas adopted from other ideologies to know the pure essence of Vedas. It is also necessary to verify the validity of dual and non-dual ideologies, which are based on Vedas to know they are mere add-ons. The original Sanatana Dharma was without all these ideologies.
Swamis or gurus claim themselves to be God and people worship and glorify them as God in human form. They are trying to establish a regular religious sect of their own by taking advantage of the mass mindset,
The ignorant people accept believe anyone who is propagating about their religion and God as avatars. This is an unhappy development of the religious movement.
There can be no correct exposition in the Upanishads unless the guru has had the experience of the truth. Otherwise, it is merely adding words to words. The sage will not do immoral things that are impossible.
It is difficult for people to understand such texts as, “God, Guru and the Self are one." No on rises voice against the practice of deifying the Guru they think it is against their religion and tradition.
If God, guru and the Self are one -- it means the self is Atman and Atman is god and guru, not the body. Thus, one who thinks of himself as a guru is considered the Self as his body and allows people to worship his body as God, thus he is not God because he is not aware of the fact that, the self is the formless Atman or Consciousness or Spirit.
Few people can think beyond physicality voice against the practice of deifying the Guru
The traditional attitude towards the Guru is glorifying him as a God. It is necessary to verify the facts on this subject at some length. This is not referred to anyone in particular. The present verification of facts is general and irrespective of any particular person and their beliefs.
In religious orthodox literature is full of such aphorisms as:~
There is no higher deity than the Guru'
The Guru is the ultimate Truth and Deity
God and Avatars (incarnations) are secondary to the Guru in importance
There is no higher refuge, no higher target, no higher destination than the Guru
The Guru is God Himself
God and the Guru are one
He who makes a distinction between the Guru and God are ignorant and stupid and scores of similar others. Some celebrated philosopher-saints have offered their first salutations to the Guru in their various books.
Why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS when Vedas bar human worship:~ ~
Translation 3
"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.
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 clearly indicates in Vivekachudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).
Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. Also, he is required to perform rituals all through his life. However, the ‘Self’ has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self and identifies ‘Self’ with the body is confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. -Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage Sankara:~ (11.1) This ignorance (mistaking the body for ‘Self’) brings in its wake a desire for the well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its destruction, and thus a host of miseries(anartha). This anartha is caused by projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are, therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, the person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is Avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya. Adhyasa Bhashya
In religious and yogic path Guru is needed, but guru is not needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Gnana (wisdom) is given neither from outside nor from another person. Guru of everyone is only the Soul, the ‘Self’ that is always revealing on its own.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the raft to cross this endless ocean of the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
