Re: Followers of Sankaracarya, please take no

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• Subject: Re: Followers of Sankaracarya, please take no
• From: madhava@aol.com (Madhava)
• Date: 29 Apr 1995 14:14:17 -0400
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Before I read Srila Prabhupada's Gita, I was named Shiva by my previous
Guru, Dr. Ramamurti Mishra.  Prabhupada convinced me that Sankaracharya
was a Vaishnava in disguise, and that his impersonal philosophy was
actually meant to reinstate the study of the Vedas.  At the end of his
life, Sankaracarya advocated Krishna Bhakti: "Bhaja Govinda, Bhaja
Govinda".  In his poem in praise of the Gita (I think it is called the
Gitavali) Sankaracharya paraphrases a famous quote from the Puranans:

mukham karoti vacalam
pangum langhayate girim
yat kripa tam amam vande
paramandanda madhavam

A dumb man can become of poet
A lame man can cross the maintains 
All this  is possible by the mercy of the Lord I worship
The all Blissful Madhava, Husband of the Goddess of Fortune.

Your trully,

Madhavadasa Dasa

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