Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
Sankara quotes from earlier writers in his tradition indicating that the idea of Advaita
was not new.
Bhagavan Upavarsha is the author of Vrttis to the Brahma Sutras(400–450 CE)
and also probably the Bhagavad-gita;
Sundara Pandya wrote varttikas to upavarsha's vrttis;
Brahmanandin wrote the Chandogya Upanishad-vAkya;
Dravidacharya wrote a commentary on br Brahmanandin's Vakya;
Kasakrtsna is referred to in brahmasUtra (Avasthite: - iti kasakrtsna:),
Bhartrhari, the grammarian .
Bādarāyana, (400–450 CE) who wrote the Vedanta Sutra. (Brahma Sutras ). He
refers to seven Vedantic teachers before him. From the way in which
Bādarāyana cites the views of others it is obvious that the teachings of the
Upanishads must have been analyzed and interpreted by quite a few before him
and that his sytematization of them in 555 sutras arranged in four chapters must
have been the last attempt based on others.
Adi Shankara (788–820),is also known as Śaṅkara Bhagavatpādācārya and Ādi
Śaṅkarācārya,
Shankara's teacher was Govinda Bhagavatpada. Sankara is considered as the
first proponent of modern Hinduism emerging out of Vedism freeing itself from
the Semitic theologies under Gnostic influence..
Govinda's teacher was Gaudapada. Around 740 AD Gaudapada founded Shri
Gaudapadacharya Math, (known as Kavaḷē maṭha. located in Kavale, Ponda,
Goa) is the oldest matha of the South IndianSaraswat Brahmins. Unlike other
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