Religious authorization is no guarantee of ultimate truth or Brahman

Religious authorization is no guarantee of ultimate truth or Brahman . All teachers expound what they have inherited form their gurus. Seekers of truth have to be very cautious about working with anyone who calls himself a "guru or teacher.  The one who speaks of individual god, scriptures and religion is not a spiritual but religious. Religious knowledge will not yield wisdom.   Gnani is the one who knows the soul is the true self and bases his-self on the soul. People pretending to be Gnanis and claiming themselves to God are certainly frauds.

Only the frauds claim to be "fully enlightened."  Seekers of truth have to be beware of those people who ooze charisma and are worshiped by their disciples. The best teachers never call themselves as teachers are the most ordinary ones. The true teachers are those who say they are not teacher or guru and say there is no teacher, there is no disciple and there is no teaching,  and inspire and share their knowledge and guide them as fellow seeker.  

The ego is not the Self. The ego is limited to waking or dream.  Self is everywhere and in everything in the three states, as their formless substance and witness. Self is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. There must not be any controversy regarding the existence of self, which is soul/spirit. If there is no self in this world how does world exist.

Whatever is happening within the waking/dream is due to the formless Self.  Self is not the flesh, but it is the formless substance and witness of the three states.

 

There are certain principles which are common to all orthodox Hindu thought, that are taken for granted.  Orthodox assumes that the doctrine of karma is valid because they accept the experience of birth, life, death and the world as reality.

Kabir views humanity as being caught up in illusion, searching for Ultimate Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in various rituals, temples, forests and mountaintops, not realizing That for which we seek is already hidden within us. 

 Without the self-knowledge or brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana it is impossible to cross the illusory ocean of the pain and pleasure.  There no vessel to ferry man across the ocean of illusory form, time and space except Gnana.  

What is Gnana? Gnana means the full and firm realization of truth – a realization beyond all doubts, change and contradiction. 

Neither the control of breath, or regulating the breath, nor the performance of selfless service, nor by devotion to gods and gurus, not the performance of penance, nor pilgrimaging, nor by yoga nor by scriptural mastery, the ignorance will not vanish. But only   through non-dual wisdom the ignorance can be eradicated.  The three states are state of ignorance. All the three states are falsehood. The formless substance and and eternal.  witness of the three states is real

 Sri Sankara, in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows. 

 It  all depends on how we look at things. If there is a creation there is a creator is based on the false self/ego. The existence of God is wholly based on man’s existence. For god to exist man has to exist first. The truth will not reveal only when one investigates the truth about his true  existence.   When man himself is dependent on soul for existence, how the physical based theories based on man as self can can be true.  

the formless Soul or consciousness , the innermost Self is present. But there are so many physical selves based on oneself. Self is one, and it is the supreme eternity. Soul or consciousness, the innermost Self is a reality.