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KALADI - THE BIRTH PLACE OF ADI
SANKARA |
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He realized
that the outcaste was none other than the Lord of Kashi and fell Prostrate at his feet. He
broke forth into an Advaitic hymn which has become famous as the Manishapanchaka-Five
Verses of Human wisdom and which has this refrain: The man who sees the same self in all
beings and leads his life accordingly, is my guru, be he an outcaste or a high-caste
Brahmin.
Sankara's next destination was Badari in the Himalayas. Badari being the place of penance
of Vyasa, Sankara chose to stay there and write the commentary on the Brahmasutras, on ten
Upanishads, on the Gita, the Vishnu -Sahasranama, etc. Thus he completed the commentaries
on the three main basic authorities of Hinduism viz. the Upanishads, the Brahmasutra and
the Gita. The remaining years of his life he spent preaching and teaching Vedanta.
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