“Adi Shankara was an exquisite thinker, a brilliant intellect, a personality scintillating with the vision of Truth, a heart throbbing with industrious faith and an ardent desire to serve the nation, sweetly emotional and relentlessly logical, in Shankara the Upanishads discovered the fittest spiritual general.”
“Adi Shankara established what I would call the Empire of the Spirit. Whole generations have come and gone, and empires have flourished and vanished, but Shankaracharya’s Empire of the Spirit survives. And so long as his great spirit abides with our people, there is hope for the future greatness of our country.”
“The greatest teacher of the Vedanta philosophy was Shankaracharya. By solid reasoning, he extracted from the Vedas the truths of Vedanta, and on them built up the wonderful system of Jnana that is taught in his commentaries. He unified all the conflicting descriptions of Brahman and showed that there is only one Infinite Reality.”
Acharya Shankar Sanskritik Ekta Nyas Department of Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum, Shyamla Hills, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh — 462003
