There is not so much on Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana but there is plenty of information on cults, gurus and their film flam, scandals etc. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana requires that one find out for himself. This also means discovering, exploring, and thinking for oneself.
Looking for mystical gurus and yogis are not related to finding real Self Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. A vast majority of these spiritual problems disappear as one takes full responsibility for his own "enlightenment"-- free of religion, god glorification, scriptural knowledge, cultural dogma, and burnt out historical traditions.
On pursuit of truth, everything all summed up in inquiring, analyzing and reasoning on the base of soul as self that is something one try for himself, and find out for himself.
Therefore, once one has that pointer,
that direction, there is no need to waste time and effort. If one is interested
in the history of gurus of yogis, or if one finds his transcribed talks
entertaining or soothing, that is OK. Otherwise, once one becomes aware of the
fact that ‘I’ is not the self, but the soul is the true self he will be able to
drop all the accumulated dross.
A religious guru or yogi is too enthusiastic to have everyone as
his disciple, and he will push himself on others with his advices,
authoritative scriptural knowledge. Religious guru or yogi wants to keep everyone
in the domain of religion and yoga.
Yoga
is practiced on the base of physical self or ego. When the yogi sits down to
meditate, he is thinking first of his posture, i.e. his body; next he tries to
get rid of his thoughts," i.e. he is already thinking of those thoughts.
Thus his mind is filled with body and the thoughts [ego], never of the formless
witness.
More than he wants to help people, he wants to help his ego. A
serious seeker of truth will he only
uses people and impose his inherited idea of religion and god on them, usually
unintentionally because he himself is more unconscious than others of the
ultimate truth.
A Gnani is not enthusiastic to have anyone as his disciple. He
never identifies himself as guru. He
does not impose his ideas on anyone. However, he identifies the serious seeker
and guides them as a fellow seeker. It is very difficult to identify a Gnani,
because he never claims himself to be guru or teacher.
Most
people are not aware what really they are seeking. They start there pursuit
with their inherited religious ideas and as they go deeper they will feel that
religion and yoga are inadequate to quench their thirst.
A serious seeker will realize the fact that, he is looking for
something else, and he is now sure it is not self-assurance, fulfillment of
dreams, fulfillment of social demands. He
will realize the fact that religion and yoga are means to quench his inner
thirst.
A Gnani dearly cares about the serious seeker but will stay
aloof, he knows that if seeker needs to be assisted by him, he will approach or
rather be drawn to approach him. He has no self interest whatsoever and so
anyone considered equally for his love as anybody else, who ever comes, comes
and if no one comes it is also fine.
There
are no divisions in consciousness or soul, the soul pervades everywhere and in
everything in experience of diversity.
In addition, waking entity is not the base to decide where the Presence
is and where it is not. It has to be viewed, judged and concluded on the
base of the formless witness (soul or consciousness) to know there is only unity and the
diversity is mere illusion. “Soul
is present in the form of consciousness is all-present and everywhere and in
everything and connects everything to everything and finally becomes nothing
other then itself.
For
those who have learned how to see, and judge the three states on the base of
the soul as self, find the truth is perfectly hidden and perfectly revealed in these
three states.
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