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Adi Shankara Painting of Adi Shankara, exponent of Advaita Vedanta with his disciples by Raja Ravi Varma Personal Born Shankara c. 700 CE ; Died c. 750 CE Religion Hinduism Known for Expounded Advaita Vedanta Organization Philosophy Advaita Vedanta Religious career Guru Govinda Bhagavatpada Honors Jagadguru Part of a series on Advaita Schools Classical Advaita Vedanta Bhāmatī Vivarana Shaivism/Tantra/Nath Kashmir Shaivism (Pratyabhijna) Nath (Inchegeri Sampradaya) New movements Neo-Advaita ...
Adi Shankara was an Indian philosopher and theologian who expounded the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He renounced the worldly pleasures at a very young age. Shankaracharya amalgamated the ideologies of ancient ‘Advaita Vedanta’ and also explained the basic ideas of Upanishads.
Sadhguru: Adi Shankara was an intellectual giant, a genius of linguistics, and above all, a spiritual light and the pride of India. The level of wisdom and knowledge he showed at a very early age made him a shining light for humanity. He was a prodigal child and an extraordinary scholar with almost superhuman capabilities.
Shankara was a philosopher and theologian, most renowned exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy, from whose doctrines the main currents of modern Indian thought are derived. He wrote commentaries on the Brahma-sutra, the principal Upanishads, and the Bhagavadgita, affirming his belief
Adi Shankara was born in Kalady, a village in Kerala, India, to a Namboothiri brahmin couple, Shivaguru and Aryamba and lived for thirty-two years. Adi Shankara’s parents were childless for many years. They prayed at the Vadakkunnathan temple (also known as Vrishachala) in Thrissur, Kerala, for the birth of a child.
Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya was the greatest exponent of the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and a savior of Vedic Dharma. Salutations to Adi Shankaracharya, who is an ever shining star on the sky of Indian philosophy. The existence of Vedic Dharma in India today is due to Adi Shankara.
The title derives from Adi Shankara; teachers from the successive line of teachers retrospectively dated back to him are known as Shankaracharyas. Establishment of the tradition [ edit ] According to a tradition developed in the 16th century, Adi Shankara set up four monasteries known as Mathas or Peethams, in the North, South, East and West of India, to be held by realised men who would be known as Shankaracharyas.
