Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 65

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The schools that I just mentioned of course took their present form only after the time of our Acharya. But the original ideas from which these schools sprang were there from earliest times. In fact advaita also had its origin long before our Acharya. But it was he who streamlined it and presented it as a  siddhAnta. In the same way the Acharyas of the other schools who came only later to  our Acharya,  pulled out the ideas which were already there and established their  siddhantas. It is the greatness of Adi Shankara that he  was able to see the other points of view also by his erudition and farsight even before they had been established as a popular school.  

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