Adi Shankaracharya also established mathas in the northern ( at Jyotirmath, near Badrinath ), eastern ( at Puri ) and western ( at Dwaraka ) quarters of India.

In 1941, at the age of 70, after repeated requests and decades of meditation and living alone in silence in the forests and mountains of India, Saraswati accepted the position of Shankaracharya ( spiritual leader ) of Jyotir Math, a position that had been vacant for about 165 years.

The lake is bounded by the Shankaracharya hill ( Takht-e-Suleiman ) on the south and Hari Parbat on the west and is located at the foot of the Zabarwan hills.

The philosopher Shankaracharya is documented as having stayed at this place when he visited Kashmir ten centuries ago to revive Sanātana Dharma.

Adi Shankaracharya, as with the reference in the Sharabha Upanishad, refers to this 356th name of Vishnu sahasranama as not mentioning the lion-killing animal at all and instead interprets the name to mean, " As the Lord shines in the body as the indwelling Self, He is called Sharabha, while the body is sara ( perishable ).

One Kalpavriksh is believed to be have been planted by Jagadguru Shankaracharya himself at Jyotirmath, Badrinath, Uttaranchal in the cradle of the Himalayas.

The stones ( Ammonite fossils ) collected from the bed of the Gandaki River at a place close to Saligrama or Muktinath ( literally meaning " place of salvation ") in the Mustang district of Nepal, it is first mentioned in " Devi Bhagavath " completely if we want to refer puranas, it is as so there was king name Dharmadwaja who was initially a devotee of goddess Lakshmi later became rival of the same & completely ruined but his son Padmadwaja realized his father mistake became a devotee of Lakshmi, pleased to his devotion Lakshmi herself incarnated as Tulasi, later Tulasi fell in deep love with Lord Krsna for which they got married, in order to keep their relation for ever Lord Krsna converted himself as Salagrava ( saligram ) & Tulasi as river Gandaki, even today salagrava are available in gandaki only, later the Great Master Sri Shankaracharya who knew this story told to his disciples that when ever this stones are taken for the purpose of worship one should never worship those shila without tulasi, that is in order to keep the same relation of tulasi & Sri Krsna, he also further says the Tulasi which we use foe worship is hair of that Tulasi who converted into river Gandaki.

* Mukhyananda, Swami ( 2006 ) Sri Shankaracharya: life and philosophy: an elucidative and reconciliatory interpretation, 4th ed.

The Shankaracharya was arrested on November 11, 2004 and charged by Tamil Nadu state prosecutors with being a conspirator in the murder of a temple manager, Sankararaman.

While a few sources say that he worked in a factory for some time most report that in 1941, he became an administrative secretary to the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ( also known as Guru Dev ) and took a new name, Bal Brahmachari Mahesh.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya ( spiritual leader ) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas.

But due to lack of royal patronage and its strict principles, along with the rise of Shankaracharya & Ramanujacharya, Jainism, once the major religion of southern India, began to decline.

Referring to Rajaji, Sarojini Naidu, who was never on good terms with him, remarked that ' the Madras fox was a dry logical Adi Shankaracharya while Nehru was the noble, compassionate Buddha '.

The common teaching style of teaching of the Inchgiri Sampradaya masters ( beginning with Shri Bhauseheb Maharaj ) to Indian devotees was for the Master to select a passage from a traditional text on Advaita Vedanta, most commonly Dasbodh of Saint Shri Samarth Ramdas ( as well as the " Yoga Vasishtha ", " Saachara " of Shri Shankaracharya, and the " Ecknati Bhagwat " of Saint Ecknath ), and to expound upon the meaning and import of that selected passage.

But due to lack of royal patronage & its strict principles, along with the rise of Shankaracharya and Ramanuja, Jainism, once the major religion of southern India, began to decline.

But this theory, however, fails to explain why other well known religious leaders like Shankaracharya and Madhwacharya, who were very well acquainted with Vedic knowledge did not address the issues, that Basava did in later part of the history in 12th century.

According to legend, Adi Shankaracharya is said to have selected the site as the place to stay and teach his disciples, because when he was walking by the Tunga river, he saw a cobra with a raised hood, providing shelter from the hot sun, to a frog about to spawn.

However, it is with Adi Shankaracharya that the name of Garhwal will always be linked, for the great 8th-century spiritual reformer visited the remote, snow-laden heights of Garhwal, established a Joshimath and resorted some of the most sacred shrines, including Badrinath and Kedarnath.

In the early 1930s, Brunton embarked on a voyage to India, which brought him into contact with such luminaries as Meher Baba, Sri Shankaracharya of Kancheepuram and Sri Ramana Maharshi.

At the main entrance is a shrine with the marble idol of Kamakshi, given to the temple by the Shankaracharya of Kanchi.

His work, Hastamalak, comprised 764 owees, and it was based on a 14-shlok Sanskrit hymn with the same name by Shankaracharya.

By shouldering this responsibility, I would be serving the cause for which Adi Shankaracharya stood.

On May 27, 1959 he took formal monastic vows from the Shankaracharya of Puri Srimad Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha and was named Swami Hariharananda Giri.

Five months before his death in 1953, Brahmananda Saraswati made a will naming his disciple, Swami Shantānand Saraswati as his successor and Swāmī Dvārakeśānanda Saraswatī, Swāmī Viṣṇudevānanda Saraswatī and Swāmī Paramātmānanda Saraswati for his position of Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math monastery.

* Brahmananda Saraswati the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, the Guru of Transcendental Meditation.

Hindu temple of Jyeshteswara ( Shankaracharya ), on the Shankaracharya Hill, near Srinagar.

During his time, the Buddhists wreaked vengeance on the Hindu Brahmins ( especially the followers of Shaivism ) for the harm they had received earlier from Shankaracharya.

According to the Hindu sage Adi Shankaracharya, the world-as we ordinarily understand it-is like a dream: fleeting and illusory.

* Adi Shankaracharya, Indian philosopher ( d. 820 )

Its first great consolidator was Adi Shankaracharya, who continued the work of some of the Upanishadic teachers, and that of his teacher's teacher Gaudapada.

Shankaracharya entered this place and did penance for many days.

Philosophical speculation was of concern to the elite, and even the great Advaitist scholar Adi Shankaracharya, when questioned as to the way to God, said that chanting the name of the lord was essential.

Adi Guru Shri Gauḍapādāchārya, the grand guru of Adi Shankara | Shri Adi Shankaracharya and the first historical proponent of Advaita Vedanta, also believed to be the founder of Shri Gaudapadacharya Math.

Adi Shankaracharya was born in Kalady town of the district, which is considered as a major pilgrimage centre for Hindus around the world.

Gauḍapāda ( c. 600 CE ) furthered this philosophical theory that was later consolidated by Sri Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century CE.

* Kollur is one of the Shakti Pithas established by Shankaracharya. The souparnika river flows here in the midst of a dense forest.

Adi Shankaracharya visited this place and stopped tantric rituals, and established Sri Chakra.

The Jagannath Astakam of Adi Shankaracharya is another important historical literary piece on Jagannath which provides information about the temple and appearance of the deity.

A modern Shankaracharya who traversed far and wide explaining the glory of Indian heritage.

* 22 March-Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

The sharp cries at the end of the valley were faint.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

He had never seen her before, but now he thought of the manner in which he and Benson went in and out of the cities, at each end of their run.

Somewhere at the far end of the room a voice yelled, `` You all right, Billy ''??

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.

Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.

he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home, and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees, and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue -- and still in the end capitulated ''.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.

But it could also be looked at from the other end of the spectrum.

He walked home at night for two miles beyond the end of a suburban trolley.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

For a delightful drive out of Athens I should recommend Sounion, at the end of the Attic Peninsula.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

As head of the United Nations he was the symbol of world peace, and his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously.