Reality of the Supreme Self, the realization of that Self not being a Realization of the essential relativity of phenomena in comparsion to the Succession of births and deaths due to Karma and its significance, the His main teachings may be summarized as the affirmation of SamsAra or Prasthanatraya, he exhibited a rare faculty of relentlessly logical andĬoncatenated argument and refutation, and such subtlety of reasoning as hasīeen unsurpassed in the philosophical works of the world. Of the system of philosophy called advaita. That he combined within himself the characteristics of a poet, logician,Īn ardent devotee and a mystic and at the same time was the leading exponent Jagadguru Adi ShankarAchArya is a unique historical figure of India in The Vedas have no author,Īnd are hence called ``apauruSheya.'' Veda VyAsa authored the Brahma sUtraĪnd other texts, such as the GItA, to expound the knowledge of the Vedas. ShrImannArAyaNa instructed the Vedas to BrahmA. VArttika's on the BRihadAraNyaka and taittirIya upaniShads. Sureshvara is also known as VArttikakAra because he wrote the famous
In order, are 1) ShrIman nArAyaNa, 2) BrahmA, 3) VasiShTha, 4) Shakti,ĥ) ParAshara, 6) VyAsa, 7) Shuka, 8) GauDapAda, 9) GovindapAda,ġ0) ShrI (Adi) ShankarAchArya, and his four disciples, 11) PadmapAda,ġ2) HastAmalaka, 13) toTaka, and 14) Sureshvara, and other Gurus. These two verses honor the advaita paramparA. Taṃ toṭakaṃ vārtikakāramanyānasmadgurūn saṃtatamānato'smi ॥ Śrī śaṃkarācāryamathāsya padmapādaṃ ca hastāmalakaṃ ca śiṣyam । Vyāsaṃ śukaṃ gauḍapadaṃ mahāntaṃ govindayogīndramathāsya śiṣyam ॥ Nārāyaṇaṃ padmabhuvaṃ vasiṣṭhaṃ śaktiṃ ca tatputraparāśaraṃ ca । ShankarAchArya, the commentator on those sUtras, who is none other The Brahma sUtras, who is none other than Lord VishNu, and shrI I offer obeisances again and again to shrI Veda VyAsa, the author of Sūtrabhāṣyakṛtau vande bhagavantau punaḥ punaḥ ॥ Śaṃkaraṃ śaṃkarācāryaṃ keśavaṃ bādarāyaṇam ।
Here is an article containing the toTakAShTakam, eight versesĪ short description of the advaita paramparA and a shortĪccount of Shankara's disciple toTaka are included.
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