Yoga and meditation and god and guru glorification are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

The real journey begins inwardly when one finds all the outer journeys are inadequate and useless in quenching his spiritual thirst.  The real renunciation is renouncing the ignorance.  Ignorance is the cause of experiencing illusory duality as reality. Yoga and meditation and god and guru glorification are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana. Without wisdom freedom from experiencing duality (illusion) as reality is impossible.  

The real journey begins inwardly when one find all the outer journeys are inadequate and useless in quenching one’s spiritual thirst.  The real renunciation is renouncing the ignorance.  Ignorance is the cause of experiencing illusory duality as reality. Yoga and meditation and god and guru glorification are not the means to acquire non dual wisdom. Without wisdom freedom from duality is impossible. 

 A real spiritual retreat is where there is no compulsion of any sort: no set programme to be followed, no meetings of saints, no god glorification and no prayers or no worships and rituals   so that the seeker is spared from the unnecessary strain is of any use in the pursuit of truth. All these religious and yogic baggage create great hindrance in pursuit of truth.  

In pursuit of truth there is no need to frame rules and regulation and code of conduct to control the mind, because these rules and regulations and code of conducts are useful only in practical life, not in the pursuit of truth. The seeker can attain the highest wisdom without common enforced discipline and discover the self evident truth, through inquiry and reason and analysis on the base of the soul the innermost self. The realization surges up by a free impulse when the subconscious becomes receptive enough to accept the truth.

Constant reflection in to the nature soul, the innermost self leads to Self –Awareness or Brahmic -Awareness or Atmic- Awareness.