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#AdiShankaracharya Swami Jayanti, 2022.
If today I'm identified as a true Sanatani Lad, that's only because of my Adi Guru, Sri Shankaracharya Maharaj, the establisher of Sarvapuratan Sanatan Dharma and Sanskritization.
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The Jayanti of Adi Shankaracharya falls on the Panchami Tithi during the Shukla Paksha in the month of Baishakha. He was born in Kalady of Kerala state in 788 CE. He has played a major role in the revival of Sanatan Dharma and Hindu Philosophy.
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He was born to parents who were ardent worshippers of Bhagvan Shiva, Adi Shankaracharya was a prominent Vedic scholar and a teacher who was known for his work on the development of Hindu Concept all over the world. His journey in Sanyas began with his mother's crocodile
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incident in which she believed that Adi Shankara was not an ordinary person. He was popular for his work which presents the harmonising reading of Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas & Sastras. Adi Shankaracharya also liberated knowledge of the self at its core by synthesising the
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Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time. He has established the Char dham (North- Badrinath Dham, East - Shree Jagannath Dham, West -Dwaraka Dham, South -Rameswaram Dham)
The Char Dhams are a set of four pilgrimage sites in India and visiting these sites help achieve the moksha.