Talk:Adi Shankara

message: In the section "Renouncement of ritualism" please remove the errant ref tag inside the first  note. (bolded and italic below)

Thanks 76.14.122.5 (talk) 00:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Tollens (talk) 01:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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message: @Joshua Jonathan Plz read this,
Another interesting prediction is that Lord Shiva, one of the great demigods, would appear in Kali-yuga as Shankaracharya. In the Padma Purana (6.236.5-12) Shiva explains to his wife, Parvati, that he will appear in the age of Kali to proclaim that the Buddhist doctrine is a false religion and illusory. He also said that he would propound the mayavada or impersonalist philosophy, emphasizing the indefinable nature of the Brahman, the great, impersonal spiritual force. He explained, "The philosophy of Maya (mayavada) is a wicked doctrine and is pseudo-Buddhist. In the form of a brahmana, I proclaim this doctrine in Kali-yuga. It makes the words of the holy Vedic texts meaningless and is condemned in the world. In this doctrine it recommends giving up one's duties of life [in order to be free of karma], which is said to be religiousness for those who have fallen from their duties. I will propound the identity of the Supreme Soul and the individual soul to be the [one and the same] Brahman in nature, without qualities. O goddess, I have conceived this mayavada (impersonalist) doctrine, which resembles a purport of the Ve das, for deluding people in this age of Kali [to mislead them toward atheism by denying the personal form of God]." 2409:4071:2104:311C:827B:8D73:BE76:E78 (talk) 17:18, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prediction of  Adi Shankaracharya .  

message: Change “Born 700 CE. Disputed” to “Born circa 700 CE. Kalady, Kerala, India.”
There is no dispute about the birthplace and it is equally corroborated in historical records and hagiographies alike. It’s glaring that the very fact known most about Adi Shankara in India is his birthplace, and that should be omitted. Also starting an article with the word disputed strewn everywhere when he is known to have written so many authoritative commentaries and texts on the Vedas and Upansihads is quite puzzling. It’s not like he is a character as old as Abraham whose stature is almost mythological with no actual text written by him available to us now. But Wikipedia’s entry on him doesn’t mention the word disputed anywhere. Unlike Abraham, Adi Shankara is very much contemporaneous through his living breathing works in Sanskrit. Skanda2020 (talk) 14:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you should read the article. Which historical records state that he was born in Kalady? The word "disputed" is used only two times, for his birth- and death-date; and actually, there is not somuch to dispute about, unless you take the hagiographic tales as historical recordings, and believe that Adi Fankara was born 500 BCE. Regarding :Abraham: "Most scholars view the patriarchal age, along with the Exodus and the period of the biblical judges, as a late literary construct that does not relate to any particular historical era,[10] and after a century of exhaustive archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for a historical Abraham.[11]." Regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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