Persons who accumulated bookish and scriptural knowledge and who declare themselves as gurus, enlightened are bound by some religion and tradition.

Persons who accumulated bookish and scriptural knowledge and who declare themselves as gurus, enlightened are bound by some religion and tradition.  Religion and Tradition are  based on ego or waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience (waking)   whereas the ultimate truth or Brahman is based on the soul, the innermost self. Since yogis and religionists are egocentric, they will not be able accept the anything other than their accepted truth. 

He who knows the truth, knows, what is untruth. No one can know the untruth, without knowing, what is truth. Thus people who are still in the realm of duality, thinking the self is internal, how can they judge ‘what is truth?’ and ‘what is not the truth’, without realizing the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but self is the formless substance, witness and also the source of the three states. The formless substance witness and the source are one in essence. And that essence is the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self. On the standpoint of the innermost self, the three states are mere illusion. Thus what is the use of practicing meditation or Samadhi as waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience?    Therefore, every path and practice has to be verified before accepting as truth.

 The truth does not require any tag, the serious seekers who are tired of all the theories, paths and practices and find them inadequate and useless, will turn towards the perennial springs of spiritual truth, to quench their spiritual thirst. For those who are advanced in the spiritual pursuit, will find the entire spiritual tags and branded paths and practices are inadequate and useless, in pursuit of truth. 

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the Atman , body and world are one in essence, therefore no second thing exists other than Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.  Thus realizing all the three states as consciousness leads to self-awareness. –FORMLESS PATH