Sage Sri, Sankara clearly indicates A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" then why hold Gurus and Yogis who identify themselves as holy men.*****

The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. Those who have chosen the path of wisdom there is no need to follow Guru or worship the Guru as God. 

The ‘Self’ is bodiless because the ‘Self is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  The ‘Self not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul. On the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you exist is mere an illusion.

You and your Guru exist within the dualistic illusion. Performing the Pada Pooja (feet worship) to Advaitin Gurus, you will not get Advaitic wisdom.

A Guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in the experience of the birth, life death and the world as a reality, whereas the Advaitic Sage Sri, Sankara declares the world as unreal.  Therefore, how actions performed in the unreal world can get moksha or freedom. Therefore there is a need to know the fact that, you are not the Self but the ‘Self’ is the Soul in order to understand and assimilate and realize the truth beyond the form, time and space.

People think when they meet a Guru they get instant enlightenment because many people have experienced. Such instant enlightenment is not wisdom but hallucination. And such enlightenment or any experience of that sort is temporary.    There is no doubt people must have experienced but what they experienced is a mere a hallucination. Experience implies duality. Experience is possible within the form, time and space.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path.  There is no need of a Guru in to acquire Self-knowledge.

Sage Sri, Sankara clearly indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).  

So, Sage Sri, Sankara clearly indicates A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" then why hold Gurus and Yogis who identify themselves as holy men.

On Advaitic perspective, A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple.  The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

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.

In Self-awareness, the ignorance vanishes and the unreal nature of the form, time and space are exposed. In Self-awareness (in the midst of duality),  the body is not considered as a body, the ego is not considered as ego the world is not considered as the world because everything is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness (Soul).  A Gnani is one who has realized everything is the consciousness (Brahman). There is no second thing exists other than the consciousness.   : ~ Santthosh Kumaar