Sankaracharya

Gods on Earth: Shankaracharya says no to worship of Sai Baba

July 20, 2014

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Ram Puniyani The phenomenon of God is probably the most complex one in the World. For believers there is a range of belief system about the supernatural powers. For agnostics it is ‘I don’t know’ and for atheists there is no supernatural power. The systems of thought relevant to the topic range from Animists (nature…
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Adi Shankara and Indian Materialist Philosophy (Materialism in Indian Philosophy – Part IV)

February 20, 2013

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MN Roy The dynamic view of nature attained a high degree of clarity with the Jains. The dialectic logic developed by the Jain philosophers was later on condemned by Sankaracharya as “an unsettling style of reasoning”. It was, indeed, unsettling for the rigid orthodox logic which set up an imaginary absolute standard. Once the absoluteness…
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