Gnana cannot be transmitted neither from outside nor from another person. Guru of everyone is only the Soul the innermost Self that is always revealing on its own.*****

Gnana cannot be transmitted neither from outside nor from another person. Guru of everyone is only the Soul the innermost Self that is always revealing on its own.

The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is the nature of the Soul. It is the inner consciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing its existence. This revelation is always going on naturally in every serious seeker." 

Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realized by the seeker on his own. The Gnana Guru of everyone is only the Soul the innermost Self that is always revealing its own is the seeker is receptive and serious in quest of truth.

Someone posing as a Gnani is not a Gnani. If someone poses himself as a direct disciple of some guru cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as a Gnanis are not Gnanis.  A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu or a yogi or some Guru’s disciple. 

A Gnani helps those serious seekers who individually who are ready drop all their accumulated knowledge and start afresh.

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 one who says he is enlightened is not a Gnani.  The ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. How can you and the world in which you exist remain when the ‘Self’ gets enlightenment?   Only the Soul the innermost ‘Self ‘remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Select Works of Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

Mandukya Upanishads:~    Even the Gods cannot find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Thus, that who identifies themselves as a swami,   a Guru or a yogi is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi.  The Swami, Guru, pundit or the yogi belongs to the religious or the yogic path not to the path of wisdom.

That is why Sage Sri, Sankara's commentary:~   Page 489: "The knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs. 

Page 500 asks in effect "Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."  When the knower of Brahman wears no signs ~ it means he does not identify himself as a Guru. 

Ashtavakra Samhita: - "The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. Know the ‘Self’ not ‘you’, and what is hidden beyond the form, time and space will be disclosed to you.

The feat of a Guru, touching people and thus putting them into mystic states is purely a physical or at best a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions it has nothing to do with epistemology, with the question of truth. The truth is not physical because the ultimate truth is the Soul or the Spirit. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar