Foreign seekers find it an exotic and new cultural experience to visit Indian ashrams.

Foreign seekers find it an exotic and new cultural experience to visit Indian ashrams. The ashrams supposedly offer the chance of seeing and being helped or healed a living God man, a self-proclaimed avatar or God Incarnate.

Most of the seekers usually arrive with their minds filled with what most often turn out to be false ideas about 'spirituality'. Many are very enthusiastic at seeing some of the diverse religious beliefs which infest India - seers, fakirs, soothsayers, astrologers, yogis, sadhus, temple priests and swamis. The great majority of them are either naive believer who is practicing a traditional trade-craft under whatever 'spiritual' pretense or else direct but clever frauds.

Many teachers are limited by their own life’s experiences and what they have and what they have not worked out within their own given egos.


Many People just expect mental spoon feeding to know the truth of their true existence. And they never bothered to take trouble and verify on their own. It is very difficult to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana if they do not do their own homework.

It is impossible to acquire non dual truth without indulging in deeper inquiry analysis and reasoning.

The true self has existing unobserved, unrecognized except by those who are able to discover the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is soul, which is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the substance and witness of the three states.

Consciousness is not limited to the form, but it pervades all the three states as its formless substance and witness. As a person perceiving the world within the waking/dream, is not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not the self, but the formless substance and witness of the ‘I’ is the true self. Thus it is necessary to realize the fact that ‘I’ is not the self in order to overcome the illusory duality.

The true self is the soul. The nature of the soul, which is the true self, is formless is non- dual. The soul or self is in the form of consciousness. The self itself is the guru, which can be known only from the wisdom, and which is beyond the reach of speech and mind.

Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is difficult to obtain, without discrimination between the truth and untruth; therefore, it is necessary to know the truth in order to know what is untruth. Realization and continuing in a state of identity with consciousness comes next in order. Liberation from experiencing illusion as reality is attained through non-dual wisdom. --FORMLESS PATH