People believe that teacher or mystic or priest has got so many followers and therefore there must be some truth in their teaching, is a common fallacy accepted by the mass due to their inherited samskara or conditioning

The guru is necessary for religion and yoga.  Path of truth is a personal path. Path of truth  is  path of verification. In religion and yoga the verification is not allowed. Blind faith is main ingredient in belief system and yoga.   Gurudom is playing with words because maybe the meaning is floating somewhere in between the spaces of words...

People who think themselves to be in a position to air their knowledge forget one basic fact, namely that they go by mere appearances. Someone expounds knowledge and the one who receives it begins to ape the person from whom he has received the knowledge.  They never question the validity of that knowledge.

Thus, whatever the guru wears, he will wear; whatever mannerisms the guru affects, he will imitate.  Thus, they only learn to pretend. And all so-called accumulated knowledge" is mere speculation based on the physical self(ego or waking entity). This is how tradition became established and traditional forms of worship come into being and passed it on the one generation to the next.  All these have nothing to do with the Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Whatever One has heard, whatever he has been told has no value as far as the ultimate stand point. Whether one accepts the fact that,  the only knowledge that he   really has is the knowledge that he exists within the universe i.e. the physical-awareness. The physical awareness  is part of the illusion. 

The realization of truth is not intellectual understanding. The seeker has to realize the fact that,  the 'self' is not  limited to the waking experience because the 'self' pervades all the three states as their formless substance and witness. The 'self' is neither the waking entity nor the 'self' is dream entity but the 'self' is the formless soul. The on the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self the three states are non-existent as reality.   


One has to realize the fact that, it is not the waking entity, which witnesses the three states.  The formless soul is the witness of the coming and going of the three states. The soul is immutable. The soul is unaffected by the happening within the three states because the three states are mere mirage created out of the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The soul or consciousness is the innermost self. 

The truth is beyond intellectual understanding and only the serious seekers who are free from preconceived accumulated ideas can get there. The seeker of truth moves a head by verifying the facts and by removing all the obstacles and reaches his non-dual destination.

"It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of realization of the highest Truth."

People believe that teacher or mystic or priest has got so many followers and therefore there must be some truth in their teaching, is a common fallacy accepted by the mass due to their inherited samskara or conditioning. It proves only an ignorant can find a number of greater ignorant to follow him. 

As the conviction of  the soul,  innermost self  grows stronger and firmer, the illusion looses its luster and becomes one with the stuff it is made out of.