Today is a day of Great Joy for all of us. It is the day of the Great Acharya, Bhagavan Bhashyakara Sri Shankaracharya incarnating in this world, to save us from the Samsara.
As Shankara Dig Vijaya clearly says, Shambo murti charati shankara rupa - Shiva himself came into this world in this form as Shankaracharya.
The strange thing is that Acharya, unlike anyother, not just preached a time-imemorial philosophy, but lived it too.
The crux of the teaching, the world is illusory. This is very well established, as we see the fight going to establish the date of his Birth, whether it is AD or BC. Where He attained Samadhi, is it in Kedharnath or is it in Kancipuram.
The only thing for sure is he was here to solve OUR problems. As the teaching says, the world is pratitimatram. just a transient existence.
As Shankara Dig Vijaya clearly says, Shambo murti charati shankara rupa - Shiva himself came into this world in this form as Shankaracharya.
The strange thing is that Acharya, unlike anyother, not just preached a time-imemorial philosophy, but lived it too.
The crux of the teaching, the world is illusory. This is very well established, as we see the fight going to establish the date of his Birth, whether it is AD or BC. Where He attained Samadhi, is it in Kedharnath or is it in Kancipuram.
The only thing for sure is he was here to solve OUR problems. As the teaching says, the world is pratitimatram. just a transient existence.
