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गुरु पूर्णिमा

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Gududev Shankara was born about 788 C.E. and at rest at the young age of 32. In this short life span, what he did is impossible for the people of many generations. He travelled the whole country to revive Sanatana, establishing four Peethas on the four edges of it: Sringeri in the South, Jagannath in the East, Dwarika in the West and Badrikashram in the north. He believed in Vedant philosophy and Strict Monism was his doctorine as he argued that it is true we, through our senses, experience the continuous process of Brahma’s creation of phenomenal universes with worlds and planets in which both sentient and insentient originate, grow and end up, but this form of Brahman is illusory. Brahman, the impersonal God or the universal soul is without attributes, characteristics or shape and form. There is nothing that is not identical to something else. In fact, our minds are customised to a particular setting which enables us to see indistinguishable Brahman having different things and by