Adi Sankaracharya, Jesus, and Advaita Vedanta
In the eighth century AD, Adi Shankaracharya studied the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and Brahma Sutras and pointed out that all the truths were based on the Vedas. He developed the Advaita Vedanta philosophy of one infinite reality and its non-duality (material illusion and spirituality ). To propagate his Advaita Vedanta, though he was based in Kanchipuram near Madras, he traveled throughout India and established four more mutts ( schools in four parts of India to teach Advaita Vedanta and the leaders he appointed were also called Sankaracharya’s of each of those Mutts. All five of these Mutts are prominent and have their lineage of Sankaracharya ( Sankara Teachers). However, he realized that materialistic beliefs were so ingrained in everyone and the difficulty in having everyone understand this truth in one infinite reality that they cannot perceive with their material eyes. So, he explained it as a way to understand one reality. You have to climb all the stairs to reach the truth of only truth, and each one will be able to get to whatever level they can. Jesus implied this when he said each one is given a specific belief suited to their needs. Jesus also said that what he does is not his own but what his Father tells him to do. He spoke at one time; he and his Father were one. In the nineteenth century, other saints such as Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and Ramana all explained the duality similarly and united the country. I will like to learn mathematics in school when we start with additions and subtractions, then with multiplication and division, then algebra, calculus, and finally algorithms for programming. Just as students drop out at various levels because they cannot comprehend beyond basic math, it is the same thing with materiality and spirituality. The higher you climb in a tall building, the farther you can see. That is what spirituality and one reality are all about. Jesus said, “Take no thought for what ye shall eat, drink, or clothe, but seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you.” When one of Vivekananda’s disciples, Saradananda, was giving a lecture on Gnana Yoga, which is the study of spirituality, in the US in 1896, one of the American audience recorded and later published, You might want to read:https://amp.scroll.in/article/816610/how-adi-shankaracharya-united-a-fragmented-land-with-philosophy-poetry-and-pilgrimage
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(These were initially recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed.)
There is also a movie on Adi Sankaracharya taken in 1983, produced by GV Iyer in Sanskrit with subtitles in all languages and will be available in all libraries and Amazon Prime Video.
When Adi Shankaracharya was developing the bhasya (Commentary) on the Advaita-Vedanta philosophy of non-duality, he was aware of the difficulty of making materialistic people understand conceptual spirituality, and very few people will have the capacity to comprehend things that material eyes cannot see. If you try to explain Vedanta to a starving beggar, he would only pelt you with stones. You can feed him first to quelch his material hunger and then try teaching Vedanta. But now he would be complete and start snoring hearing the Vedanta. Adi Shankaracharya knew that material things evolve from the Divine Mind and are the creator and cause of everything in this Universe. So he explained that spirituality is an ascending process, and each one can climb up to their level of understanding, but as long as they know that the ultimate goal should be the knowledge of only one truth and reality. People, when they reach this destination, understand that all supply, needs, and knowledge comes from one source, The Divine Mind, God, the Brahman, and He is present as a whole in each one of us. The one who develops this understanding is getting ready for salvation or Mukti.
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