A Gnani is not a sanyasi or guru or swami or Sadhu or monk. He does not belong to any ashrams.*****

People can only lecture for giving out falsehood (duality), but it is waste of time deliver a public lecture giving out truth.   It the illusions that appeal to the taste of the audience because they are ignorant about the world in which they exist is mere an illusion on the standpoint of the Soul, the ‘Self’.

For a crowd at a venue will contain men of varying capacities to understand, of whom only one or two might be seekers for truth or receptive to receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

If one wants to interview a Gnani then he must be ripe enough to understand what a Gnani is pointing at.    A Gnani will be withholding the truth because he is aware of the fact that, the unready people will not understand what he is saying.

That is why Bhagavad Gita says:-  "Don't unsettle the minds of ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."

A Gnani may travel provided he is actively engaged there in helping others.

For the benefit of those who think from the lower standpoint of the world of duality, the Gnani tells them to follow their chosen path and when they are convinced that their chosen path is inadequate and useless in quenching their inner thirst then only take the path of wisdom or reason.

A Gnani is not a sanyasi or guru or swami or Sadhu or monk.  He does not belong to any ashrams."  Both Gnani and ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them. A Gnani sees the unity behind the differences within the realm of form, time and space by knowing the form, time and space are one in essence.  A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced the idea of a separation of form, time and space.

Gnanis have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search of truth, and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, all authorities, until they could be proved to be true. Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial makes no difference to them because if people have believed a false thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.  The ultimate truth does not belong to the religion because the religion and its belief of God and its scriptures are a reality within the scope of form, time and space whereas the ultimate truth is beyond form, time and space. 

The Gnani’s accepts the sameness in pleasure and pain because he is fully aware of the fact that the pleasure, pain and the world are made of the same stuff and that stuff is consciousness.   Without the consciousness, there is no pleasure, pain and the world.  Gnani’s position is that if enjoyment comes, he accepts it; if it does not, he keeps quiet. Even when he is taking pleasures, however, he is not deluded by them and he regards them as a game he is playing for he knows their unreality: he does not take them seriously.

Clouds do not affect the sky, although they appear to; so the pleasure and pain do not change the Gnani because he is fully aware of the fact that, the pleasure and pain belong to the world. And the world is mere an illusion on the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self.    On the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self the illusion is mere a passing show.

The Gnani will follow whatever occupation he wishes according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a peasant or billionaire.

A Gnani does not perform miracles to attract attention to the truth.  If one performed Miracles in a dream the dream become unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns when waking entity (you) realizes it itself is not the self but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. The witness of the three states and the three states are one in essence.  That essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Even whilst in the midst of the experience of objects, the Gnani has the awareness of the Soul, the innermost Self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman. 

 In self-awareness, there is no separation of form, time and space from the other because the form, time and space are one in essence.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes Avadhuta and live as he wishes.