To realize the Advaitic truth there is no need to go from one mountain to another, one Ashram to another or worship the Godmen or Guru as a God, or converting from one faith to another.
The Advaitic truth is universal. Anyone can realize it if he has an intense urge. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. In the world in which we exist, all our thoughts, words, beliefs, experiences are nothing but consciousness.
Realizing consciousness is everything, is truth realization or Self-realization or God-realization.
Remember Advaitic truth has to be realized being in this world doing all the worldly duties and not run behind the Gurus and yogis or escape to mountains and caves and Ashrams and joining some cult.
Ignorance will not vanish by becoming a sanyasi or a monk, a sadhu or swami. If you are seeking truth then you have to drop all that is not needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
It is very sad to see children are forced to monkhood in the monastery brainwashed to become a monk, which will not yield any truth.
It is very sad to see youngsters are discontinuing their education in order to become a sanyasi.
It is very sad to see people are renouncing their family life and dedicate themselves to some cult.
What is the use of becoming a monk or sanyasi or swami or Sadhu?
Sanyasa is a religious fable. Sanyasa is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The sanyasa or monkhood is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and sanyasa or Monkhood is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
What is the use of giving up something within the unreal world when Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal and Brahman alone is real?
Sanyasa is nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman. When the Self is not you then what is the use of taking sanyasa. You are the false Self (waking entity) within the false experience (waking).
Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the waking experience itself is merely an illusion. Suppose if you had asked the same question in the dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when the waking entity (you) realizes it itself is not the Self.
There is no need to take sanyasa and renounce worldly life in order to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. All the guru propagated knowledge is not Gnana. All guru propagated knowledge is meant for the ignorant populace. If you are stuck up with religion and yoga you are unfit to tread the Atmic path.
If you are seeking the truth of your true existence then you must set yourself free of religious background and cultures, of all accumulated Knowledge should be discarded.
The seeker has to have the courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth because most people will not be able to subscribe to the path of truth, because, they sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited belief system, and even if one does he has to overcome all his doubts, confusion, and despair. These are problems for the seekers who are from a religious background because of their conditioning and they are made to accept their blind belief as truth and their interest or insight is not deep.
Thus, all my blogs are useful in analyzing these problems because they highlight what is not the truth according to their own religious scriptures and make them accept the truth and reject all the false conditioning and move ahead in the pursuit of truth.
Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.
Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread." (Select Works of Sage Sri, Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad)
Thus, the above passage proves that all those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of ignorant masses in the dualistic world.
Sage Sankara says the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)
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.”:~
Santthosh Kumaar
