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A Few Things that Stole My Heart
Dr. Lakshmanan, Vancouver, Canada
There are few parallels to the life
history of SrI Sankara BhagatpAda,
who in a short life span of 32 years,
brought about a revival of sanAtana
vaidika dharma, effected a reform at
social, cultural, religious, and
philosophical levels, and
singlehandedly rescued Amar BhArat
from moral recession. Indeed, in the
previous yugas, whenever adherents
of Dharma were threatened and
persecuted by evil forces in the form
of demons, the Lord took an
appropriate avatar to annul those evil
forces and restore peace and order
for the good majority. This is often
referred to as dushTa nigraham tathA
SishTa paripAlanam. In kaliyuga,
when the dark forces were not
demons in material form but instead
manifested themselves in the form demonic thoughts, convictions,
practices, misunderstandings, beliefs, and intolerance, the Lord again
had to get involved and inject a corrective force at the system. Such was
the occasion when Lord DakshiNAmurty, a form of Lord Siva in
meditative form, teaching, through silence, transcendental wisdom to His
disciples such as sanaka Maharshi, out of His compassion for the
confused and lost millions, decided to take an avatar. When the
Sarvajna, the Knower of all, decides to break His silence, what can you
expect? It was no surprise then, that Sri Adi Sankara managed to dispel
the dark forces from the hearts of men by expounding Vedanta deeply
rooted in Vedic and Upanishadic teachings. He was a universal preceptor
and a true Jagadguru, or teacher of the universe. Normal teachers
address students at a particular level of learning – be it pre-K, grade
level, college, post-secondary, doctoral, or post-doctoral. Sri Sankara,
whose very avatar happened out of the Lord’s compassion, catered to
people at different levels of intellectual development, maturity, learning,
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