Sri Shankara Bhagavatpadah Vijayante

SRI ADI SHANKARACHARYA(Life and Philosophy in brief)

KALANIDHI SATYANARAYANA MURTHYLaw Secretary (Retd.)

Government of Andhra Pradesh

EDITOR

"SAMSKRITA MITRA"

Dr. Remella AvadhanuluM.Sc. (Nuclear Physics), M.A., Ph.D (Sanskrit), M.A., Ph.D. (Jyotisha)

Dy. Director (Computers), (Retd)., NIMS, Hyderabad.

SHRI VEDA BHARATHI

Hyderabad

SRI ADI SHANKARACHARYA(Life sketch and Philosophy in brief)

INDEX

Chapter – I

1. Early life and education 32. Shankara prepares himself 73. In the hermitage of Govindapada 94. Sets off to Benares 105. Shankara's victorious campaign 136. Last days 19

Chapter – II

1. Gaudapada 212. Shankara 243. The writings of Shankara 25

Chapter – III

1. Essence in brief 292. Brahman 31

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3. Brahman is Pure Consciousness 344. Brahman alone is True :

(Brahma Satyam) 375. Illusory character of the world

(jaganmithya) 416. Non-duality of the Self 467. Brahman - Iswara - Jiva 508. Bondage and liberation 559. Nirguna Brahman and

Saguna Brahman 6110. Iswara - creation 6411. Shankara's theory of knowledge 6912. Shankara's theism 7213. Certain fundamental positions 7514. Maya and midhya 78

Chapter – IV

1. Advita and other systems 822. Other prominent teachers

of Advaita 843. The enduring legacy of Shankara 88

Biblograhphy

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Sri Shankara's Victorious Campaign Route1. Kaladi (Kerala) Birth Place

2. Omkareshvar (Gujrat) -

Joins as a disciple of Sri Govindapada

3. Varanasi - Writes Bhashyas,

Padmapada joins as a disciple

4. Badarinath - Sutrabhasya

5. Prayaga - Meets Kumarila Bhattu

6. Mashishmati (Bihar) - defeats Mandanamisra, who

thereafter joins as a diciple under the name of

Sureswaracharya

7. Srisailam - Writes Soundaryalahari

8. Gokarnam (Karnataka)

9. Mukambika - Hastamala joins as a disciple

10. Shringeri - establishes Saradapeetha -

Totakacharya joins as a disciple

11. Kaladi - last rites of his mother

12. Rameshvaram - starts his campaign

13. Kanchipuram - darshan of Kamakshidevi

14. Tirupati

15. Dwaraka - establishes Shankara Math

16. Ujjaini - darshan of Mahakaleswar

17. Kamarupa (Assam) - disputation with Navagupta

18. Puri (Odissa) - establishes a Math

19. Kashmir - ascends Sarvajnapeetha

20. Badarinath

21. Kedarnath - disappears