Vedas and Adi Sankara - Part 10 By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji.

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Radhe Krishna To all,

 

As promised to his mother, Sankara reached Kaladi to be by her side in her last

moments. As the Scriptures forbid a sanyasin to perform last rites none

cooperated with him in conducting the last rites to his mother. However, Sankara

using his yogic power performed the cremation of his mother in the compound of

his house, single handedly. Later, Sankara traveled all over the country winning

people to the Vedic religion.

 

In his short span of 32 years of life Sankara wrote slokas on all the deities of

all the Holy Places, wrote commentaries on all the Holy Texts, met the heads of

innumerable new faiths and won them over to the Vedic religion. Though

Sankara’s lifetime was more than 1000 / 2000 years, his teachings of Advaita

philosophy still form the base for everything. Such is the glory of this

‘Avatara Purusha’! Some of slokas composed by Sankara are Guru Ashtakam,

Ganesha Pancharatnam, Subrhamanya Bhujangam, Soundarya Lahari, Shatpadi Stotram,

Bhaja Govindam, and Dakshinamoorthyashtakam. It is interesting to note that the

beat of the chanting of Ganesha (elephant god) Pancharatnam is like the swaying

of the elephant’s ears! And in the case of Subrahmanya Bhujangam the wriggling

movement of a snake is envisioned!

 

Sri Sankara founded the principle Mutts in four quarters of India for the spread

of Advaita philosophy and appointed four of his main disciples to head them

each. Thus, Padmapada was the first head of the Mutt in Puri (East),

Suresvaracharya of the Mutt in Sringeri (South), Hastamalaka of the Mutt in

Dwaraka (West) and Totakacharya of the Mutt in Badri (North).

 

“GOPIKA JIVANASMARANAM! GOVINDA! GOVINDA!â€

 

Regards

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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