Intellectual knowledge is not self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Intellectual knowledge is not self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Intellectual knowledge based on the false self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking).   Intellectual is limited to false experience [waking] therefore it is certainly not self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

People who have mastered scriptural knowledge and    take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis. People teach that all is your-self, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. Rational proof is needed, so that one arrive at knowing truth i.e. wisdom; scriptures mastery is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. Scriptures are not yardstick and scriptural truth is not proof.   Orthodoxy takes scriptures as authority.   Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved. 

That is why Sri, Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani indicated that:-

 

56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means. 

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?