A passage from the book "A Duet of One" by Ramesh Baleskar. Its a commentary on the Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue.

The search, the seeking for pure happiness - the spiritual seeking - begins with the individual. First, an outside compelling urge turns the mind inwards. Then the process of disidentification begins with the identified individual either going to a guru, and/or starting to read up on the subject. With the urge driving the seeker relentlessly, he does an enormous amount of reading and acquires what he considers a great deal of knowledge (and along with it considerable pride as a seeker). What actually has been happening, however, is that during all this time, during all this reading, only those statements of "truth" are accepted which fit in the with the seeker;s conditioned notions. He has conveniently rejected (consciously or unconsciously) all those which he did not like or understand. The result is a patchwork of personal philosophy, armed with which, the seeker gets more and more anxious to reform the world. It is this "knowledge" which the sage (Ashtavakra) says must be "forgotten", which must drop off before anything worthwhile can happen. Unless this ignorance in the garb of knowledge gets thrown out, says the sage, you cannot be established in the Self, "even if Shiva, Vishnu or Brahma be your preceptor."
In the course of spiritual evolution, the seeker, at the appropriate time, realizes that that which he had been regarding as knowledge is really nothing but ignorance. He then strips off these clothes of conceptual knowledge, goes naked to a Self-realized guru (more accurately, happens to be led by circumstances to the appropriate guru) who clothes him in garments of true understanding. It is only then that the urge fulfills itself and the process - the impersonal process - of the disidentification of the identified Consciousness is completed.