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	(52) The dynasties of Magadh after the Mahabharat war and the important historical personalities (Gautam Buddh, ...
		Adi Shankaracharya lived only 32 years so his birth date is 477 + 32 = 509 BC.
		Shankaracharya, after establishing the four maths and spreading the greatness of Sanatan Dharm, came back to South India and, for the last four to six years of his life, he lived in Kanchi Kamkoti.
		Thus, according to the records of Kanchi Kamkoti Math, Adi Shankaracharya was born on 2593 Kali era and left this earth planet on 2625 Kali era which comes to (3102 - 2593) 509 BC and (3102 - 2625) 477 BC.
	www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/52_the_dynasties_of.htm (1909 words)

	Great Teachers: Adi Shankara, Shankaracharya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shankaracharya is an incarnation of Lord Shiva and he had to imagine some kind of misleading interpretation, and therefore he presented a kind of Vedic literature that is full of atheism.
		Shankaracharya has carried this cheating propensity to the extreme to mislead the monists.
		Shankaracharya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect.
	www.indiadivine.com /shankaracharya1.htm (495 words)

	The Teacher Adi Shankaracharya (Shankara, Shiva) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adi Shankaracharya had sanctified his short span of life by studying all the scriptures of the land as well as writing many volumes of brilliant expositions and profound commentaries on the Veda, the Upanishads and other texts.
		Adi Shankara proclaimed the supremacy of the path of knowledge for the realisation of the Self.
		Shankaracharya came for the work of Dharmasthapana, but he did not wage a war against the narrow sectarians or the wild theologians who opposed him or the critics who condemned him as a pseudo - Buddhist.
	kiran.phpsites.com /shankaracharya (3070 words)

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		Whatever was preached and taught by Adi Shankaracharya was nothing else other than whatever had been preached by Lord Krishna to Arjuna during the battle of Mahabharata between the Kauravas and the Pandavas.
		In fact Adi Shankaracharya laid bare the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita as was annotated by Lord Krishna.
		Adi Shankaracharya was only an instrument in the hands of God through which the concept of Maya (veil of ignorance) got a foothold in the history of mankind.
	vijay-kumar.blogspot.com (2858 words)

	Life of Shankaracharya - The Adventures of a Poet Philosopher
		Some scholars believe this to be an autobiographical reference, with Shankara, born in Kerala, calling himself the child of the Dravida (southern) region, drinking at the breasts of the divine mother the milk of poesy.
		The joyous use of such rich imagery reveals that Shankaracharya was not a 'dry' preacher from the arid realms of philosophy, but also a bhakta of the highest order, capturing his emotions in highly sensitive expressions.
		While it seems to capture in a concise manner the life of Adi Shankaracharya it is highly perplexing that there is no mention of Shringeri Shirine that Adi Shankaracharya established as one of the four peethas and the story surrounding its choice.
	www.exoticindia.com /article/shankaracharya (5972 words)

	Journey through Timeless India - Glossary of Indian terms
		Adi Shankaracharya wrote extensive commentaries on the major Vedantic scriptures to prove this conclusion.
		Shankaracharya: title given to the head of each of the four mathas set up by Adi [first] Shankaracharya and their subsidiaries.
		Shankaracharya, Adi (730-820 AD): the great master of Advaita Vedanta who synthesized the Vedantic teaching with clear commentaries, wrote many scriptural books, as well as composed beautiful devotional hymns; commonly referred to by the name: Shankara.
	www.timelessindia.us /glossary.htm (5210 words)

	HINDUISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of Shankaracharya's disciples expressed readiness to enroll as a student in the Nalanda University, which in those days was the leading senter for Buddhist philosophical speculation.
		Shankaracharya explained this anomaly by telling him that he had said "If the Vedas are true not a single hair of mine w111 be hurt.", thereby he had not expressed confidence in the power of the Vedas to protect him but had expressed a hope which entertained doubts as to the power of the Vedas.
		Shankaracharya told him that had he said, "The Vedas are true and they will protect me", he would have come out unhurt.
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/hinduism.html (3728 words)

	Shankaracharya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shankaracharya was the Indian philosopher in the 8th century AD, who founded Advaita (non-dualistic) Vedanta.
		Shankaracharya exclusively advocates that the real, experiential knowledge of the Brahman/Atman identity is sufficient to get enlightened, and that as far as spiritual seekers are ready to sacrifice everything to obtain this supreme wisdom, they need neither rituals nor meditation as spiritual exercise.
		To his opponents who ask him why "One" (the Brahman/Atman identity) becomes many (this phenomenal world), Shankaracharya answers that it is because of our lack of knowledge which makes us "superimpose" the false on the real, and believe that "one" looks many.
	www.creativity.co.uk /creativity/guhen/shankara.htm (330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shankaracharya: The Lord, Adi Shankara was a great exponent of Vedic Sanatan Dharma.
		Questioner: My Lord, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswatiji Maharaj (Guru Dev), who is our ``pujapaad'' (whose feet are worthy of our respect), who is ``brahmaleen'' (absorbed in Brahma, the omnipresent form of God) who is presiding over the Jyotish, who is the teacher of the entire universe--that he (Guru Dev) used to instruct mantras to his disciples.
		Shankaracharya: The Lord, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswatiji Maharaj (Guru Dev) strictly adhered to the ``Varna'' (caste) and ``Aashram'' (four stages of life) systems.
	minet.org /Documents/shank-2 (687 words)

	Nepal King Meets Shankaracharya
		The Shankaracharya supervised a 'puja' (ritual worship), the king and the queen performed in line with the Hindu kingdom's royal traditions.
		Nepal king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah and queen Komal Rajya Lakshmi performing 'guru pada puja' (a ritual worship of the preceptor) under the guidance of the Shankaracharya of Kanchi peeth, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, at Kamakshi temple in New Delhi on June 26.
		The present Shankaracharya visited Nepal several times during the rule of the late king Birendra, brother of Gyanendra.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /religion/gyanendra.html (167 words)

	Adi Shankaracharya
		She observed many a sacred practices and to her was born the great world teacher, Adi Shankaracharya.
		Adi Shankara, at the age of five, after the performance of his Upanayana ceremony approached his preceptor and was able to master the four vedas and the six sastras within three years.
		Adi Shankara insisted on the recognition of the unity that underlines all diversity
	members.rediff.com /saivani/AdiShankaracharya.htm (3322 words)

	Sri Adi Shankaracharya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It got this name because it was so sanctified that it was not allowed to be preached to the people and was only practiced in the forests by monks who passed their secrets on to other sannyasins.
		Even to this day there is a spring of hot water, which is said to have been manifested by Shankara to alleviate the suffering of his disciples from effects of the cold in the snow-clad mountains.
		Shankaracharya has been paralleled with the great spiritual teachers, such as Buddha and Christ in that they were Avatars (Divine Incarnations) each said to be highly evolved spiritually at birth.
	satyamyoga.com /adishankaracharya.htm (3119 words)

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		Adi Sankaracharya was born in the year 805 (AD) and is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers, mystic and poet of all times.
		Adi Shankaracharya was born during the time when Hinduism was divided into various sects and the ritualistic practice had taken a predominance over actual philosophical practice.
		Shankara, in his indisputable style, set out on a difficult mission to change the outlook of the country and its people by revamping the vast Hindu literature into a simplified and easy to understand form.
	www.indiavisitinformation.com /indian-personality/Adi-Sankaracharya.shtml (199 words)

	Amma sides Hindu seer who confessed to murder and now accused of sex charges by Tamil writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is the Adi Shakti of the Sanatana Dharma, Imam Mahdi of Islam, Comforter of Christianity, Maitreya of Buddhism and Aykaa Mayee of Sikhism.
		The Mahdi, in Sanskrit, is the contraction of Ma Adi (Primordial Mother) in the same way that the Maitreya is a contraction of Ma Treya (Mother Threefold, Trigunatmika).
		In the name of Adi Shankaracharya and the great tradition of the Vedas, we should go beyond such differences and move forward in unity.
	www.adishakti.org /forum/amma_sides_hindu_seer_who_confessed_to_murder_11-30-2004.htm (1009 words)

	ayurveda Holistic Center- Swami Narayan Tirtha Math - ashram Lineage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vyasa told Govinda of the advent of the incarnation of Shiva as Adi Shankara and to meet and give him sanyas diksha, Shankara's purpose in incarnating was to comment on the Brahma Sutras.
		Several birth dates are suggested, however, astrologically and historically it seems most likely that he was born in 509BC just after 12 noon, on the fifth day of the new Moon under the sign of Cancer (karkataka) in the month of Vaishaka in the last quarter of punarvasu naxatra.
		His mission nearing an end, Shankaracharya set up four religious seats in the north, south, east and west of India to act as a lighthouse to guide religious seekers towards the truth for the millennia to come.
	swaminarayantirtha.org /ashram/ashlinge.htm (2100 words)

	Encyclopedia: Upanishad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sri Adi Sankara Adi Shankaracharya or Adi Shankara (the first Shankara in his lineage), reverentially called Bhagavatpada Acharya (the teacher at the feet of Lord), Shankara (approximately 509- 477 BC (though some claim 788-820 CE)) was the most famous Advaita philosopher who had a profound influence on the growth...
		Vedanta (VedÄnta) is an important branch of Hindu philosophy and is a form of Jnana Yoga (one of the four basic yoga practices in Hinduism; the others are: Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga), a form of yoga which involves an individual seeking the path of intellectual analysis or...
		Monist philosopher Adi Shankara summed up all the Upanishads in one phrase "Tat Twam Asi" (Thou Art That) and said that in the end, the ultimate, formless, inconceivable Brahman is the same as our soul, Atman.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Upanishad (5707 words)

	Glossary - A
		Adi literally means the first or one with a beginning.
		The adi illusion occurs once one realizes intellectually that one is not distinct from God (Brahman).
		Shri Adi Shankaracharya was a great philosopher, mystic and poet from India.
	www.sanatan.org /en/glossary/a.htm (1656 words)

	Kedarnath Travel Agent & Tour Operator, Kedarnath Temple, Jyotirlingam, Kedarnath Hotel Reservation, Shankaracharya ...
		Lying at an altitude of 3584 m at the head of river Mandakini, the shrine of Kedarnath is amongst the holiest pilgrimage for the Hindus.
		It is no wonder that Adi Guru Shankaracharya - a great scholar and saint, chose to enshrine Lord Shiva in this land, where the unholy becomes oly and the holy becomes holier.
		The present temple, built in 8th century A.D. by Adi Shankaracharya, stands adjacent to the site of an earlier temple built by the Pandavas.
	www.chardhamyatra.com /kedarnath-dham.htm (1159 words)

	ADI SHANKARA NILAYAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adi Shankara Nilayam at Veliyanad in Kerala is synonymous today with the Chinmaya International Foundation.
		The property was the ancestral maternal house of Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya and was acquired by the Chinmaya Foundation.
		Legend has it that Sri Shankaracharya was in his mother's ancestral house for a short time, even after he had become a world-teacher and composed the famous Hymn on Uma Maheswari to glorify Siva and Parvathi installed in a temple in the compound.
	www.chinmayamission.com /Temples/adishankara.htm (197 words)

	Kanchi Kamakoti Center of California - Sri Adi Shankara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya is, undoubtedly, the most renowned and the greatest philosopher the world has produced.
		Scholars from all the 56 kingdoms that existed in Bharatdesa at the time came to Kashi, listened to Sri Adi Shankara's exposition of the Bhaashyas and propagated them themselves when they went back to their respective kingdoms.
		Sri Adi Shankaracharya and His successors have shown that the religion that is known as Hinduism is the most ancient of all.
	www.kanchikamakoticenter.org /s-adi-s.html (1538 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: The Path of Devotion: Adi Shankaracharya
		Shankaracharya is the first among the three acharyas who reformed Hindu religion by giving their own interpretation to the ancient sacred texts.
		While Shankaracharya criticized Buddhism in its decayed form, he assimilated many tenets of Buddhism cleverly, like that of nirvana (void).
		Shankaracharya was only thirty-two years old at the time of his death.
	www.kamat.com /indica/faiths/bhakti/shankaracharya.htm (819 words)

	Kakaji.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adi Shankaracharya was born with a divine destiny, and so from a very young age, he was determined to become a saint.
		Realizing that his purpose on earth was being delayed, Shankaracharya decided to take steps to achieve his decision.
		When his mother heard her only son struggling for his life, Shankaracharya told her that the only way to be free of the crocodile was if she allowed him to become a saint.
	www.kakaji.org /edition.asp?id=158 (733 words)

	Uttar Pradesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the the panch Kedar Shrines, the temple was built by Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century A.D., standing at the site of an earlier temple built by the Pandavas.
		Behind the temple itself is the Samadhi of Adi Shankaracharya.
		The temple was renovated and refurbished by the religious reformer and saint, Adi Shankaracharya in the 8
	www.ashextourism.com /UttarPradesh/kedarnath.htm (188 words)

	Temples:The Mookambika Temple of Kollur
		The Panchaloha image (five element mixed metal) of the Goddess on Shree Chakra is stated to have been consecrated by Adi shankaracharya during his visit to this place.
		Adi Shankara (Vedic scholar and saint) has perceived and realized Goddess Mookambika as residing thus.
		Adi Shankaracharya appeared here leading Shri Saraswathi with a view to finding a place for enshrining her.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /temples/kollurtemple.htm (2046 words)

	One Shankaracharya accuses another
		Shankaracharya of Prayag Swami Madhavanand on Monday accused Shankaracharya of Kanchi Jayendra Saraswati of lying in his statement that Muslims had agreed to the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.
		Addressing a press conference, he pointed out that neither any Muslim leader nor the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has given any undertaking to the Hindu seer from Kanchi that they were agreeable to the construction of a temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
		It is sheer ignorance on the Shankaracharya of Prayag.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jun/12ayo3.htm (250 words)

	Bhaja Govindam of Sri Adi Shankaracharya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		About 2500 years ago was born, in a village called Kalady, a boy for a scholarly and vaidik Brahmin couple, Sivaguru and Aryamba, and this boy was to become, in later years, the greatest philosopher the world has ever seen.
		He was Shankara, known as Adi Shankara, the world over.
		During His short sojourn, He travelled through the entire Bharatha, on foot, preaching His philosophy of Advaita and taking many disciples from the four corners of the country, chief among them being four.
	www.indiadivine.org /bhaja-govindam-shankara1.htm (1544 words)

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