THE LIFE OF SWAMI SRI ADI SANKARACHARYA -2.
======================================================================= ======================================================================= 12/12/2019. Swami Sri Adi Shankaracharya – The Spiritual General – Swami Chinmayananda ======================================================================= Bhagavadpada Acharya Sankara was not only a great thinker and the noblest of Advaitic philosophers, but he was essentially an inspired champion of Hinduism and one of the most vigorous missionaries in our country. Such a powerful leader was needed at that time when Hinduism had been almost smothered within the enticing entanglements of the Buddhistic philosophy, and consequently, the decadent Hindu society came to be disunited and broken up into numberless sects and denominations, each championing a different viewpoint and engaged in mutual quarrels and endless argumentations. Each Pundit, as it were, had his own followers, his own philosophy, his own interpretation; each one