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* Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism
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Thus Adi Sankara composed the very powerful Lakshmi-Narasimha Karavalambam Stotram at the very spot in front of Lord Narasimha.
A famous prayer called the Bhaja Govindam was composed by Adi Sankara, a summary of which is ; " If one just worships Govinda, one can easily cross this great ocean of birth and death.
In a commentary to Brahma Sutras ( III, 2, 38, and 41 ), a Vedantic text, Adi Sankara, an Indian philosopher who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta, argues that the original karmic actions themselves cannot bring about the proper results at some future time ; neither can super sensuous, non-intelligent qualities like adrsta — an unseen force being the metaphysical link between work and its result — by themselves mediate the appropriate, justly deserved pleasure and pain.
An archetypal All-India pilgrimage circuit, the formation of the original Char Dham is credited to the great 8th century reformer and philosopher Shankaracharya ( Adi Sankara ).
Pushpagiri boasts of the only Advaita mutt established in what is now Andhra Pradesh by Adi Sankara.
The mutt's official history states that it was founded by Adi Sankara of Kaladi, and that His Holiness Jayendra Saraswati Swami is the current pontiff-The 69th head in succession, tracing its history back to the fifth century BCE.
A related claim is that Adi Sankara came to Kanchipuram, and that he established the Kanchi mutt named " Dakshina Moolamnaya Sarvagnya Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam " in a position of supremacy ( Sarvagnya Peetha ) over the other mathas of the subcontinent, before his death there.
For followers of Advaita tradition, Adi Sankara sampradya proceeds in this disciplinic succession: Vyasa --- Śuka --- Gaudapada --- Govindapada ---- Adi Sankara.
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Hindu monotheist notions of Brahman likewise reached their classical form with the teaching of Adi Shankara.
Adi Shankara opened the southern door by defeating in debate all the scholars there in all the various scholastic disciplines such as Mimamsa, Vedanta and other branches of Hindu philosophy ; he ascended the throne of Transcendent wisdom of that temple.
According to the Hindu sage Adi Shankaracharya, the world-as we ordinarily understand it-is like a dream: fleeting and illusory.
He was named " Ravi " ( a common Indian name meaning " sun ") because his birth was on a Sunday and " Shankar " after the 8th century Hindu saint Adi Shankara, with whom he shares the birthday.
The Adi Granth was first compiled by the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjan Dev ( 1563 – 1606 ), from hymns of the first five Sikh gurus and other great saints, or bhagats, including those of the Hindu and Muslim faith.
Sringeri, also written as Sringeri, Śŗngeri and Śŗngagiri is a hill town and taluk headquarters located in Chikmagalur district in the Indian state of Karnataka, is the site of the first maţha established by Adi Shankaracharya, Hindu theologian and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, in the 8th century C. E.
Bhaja Govindam Govinda ( Krishna ) also known as Moha Mudgara ( Hammer shatter illusion ) is a popular 8th century Hindu devotional composition in Sanskrit attributed to Adi Shankara.
With the surge of Hindu philosophers like Adi Shankara, along with Madhvacharya and Ramanuja, the trinity of the Revival of Hindu Philosophy, Buddhism started to fade out rapidly from the landscape of India.
According to Hindu tradition, Saint Adi Shankara composed and recited Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Goddess Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, for a single amla presented to him as Bhiksha by that lady on an auspicious Dwadashi day.
The temple is widely recognized as one of the most important places of worship in Hindu religion and most of the leading Hindu saints, including Adi Sankaracharya, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Goswami Tulsidas, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Gurunanak have visited this site.
Goddess Shakti is an aspect of the Supreme Being Goddess Adi parashakti, the mother of the trimurti, the holy trinity in Hindu mythology.
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* Adi Shankara, the first philosopher to consolidate the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta
Most famous among them are the chatur-amnaya mathas established by Adi Shankara which formed the nodal centres of under whose guidance the ancient Order of Vedantic monks were re-organised under ten names Dashanami Sampradaya, Ashta matha ( Eight monasteries ) of Udupi founded by Madhvacharya ( Madhwa acharya ) a dwaitha philosopher.
Some argues that it was founded by the ruler of Venad Udaya Marttanda Varma ( a feudatory with capital at Kollam ) or by the Vedic philosopher Adi Shankara on the backdrop of the shivite revival among the vaishnavite Nambuthiri Community who are considered to be the ' Nampthali ' lost Tribe of the Jews or simply it is a derivation of the Saptarshi Era.
Adi Shankara (, pronounced, ) ( 789 CE ), also known as and was an Indian philosopher from Kaladi in present day Eranakulam district, Kerala who consolidated the doctrine of advaita vedānta.
As used in the Bhagavad Gita, the Advaita philosopher Adi Shankara gave primary importance to jñāna yoga as " knowledge of the absolute " ( Brahman ), while the Vishishtadvaita commentator Ramanuja regarded knowledge only as a condition of devotion.
The Advaitin philosopher, Adi Shankara, founded the Sringeri Sharada Peetham at Sringeri after seeing a hooded snake giving shelter to a frog in labor, in spite of snakes and frogs being mortal enemies.
Saraswati is said to have been one of those " rare siddhas ( accomplished ones ) who had the knowledge of Sri Vidya " and who was " modeled " after the great philosopher Adi Shankara.
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