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Adi Shankaracharya

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Adi Shankaracharya: Advaita

  1. IDEA 1

    Non-duality

    Shankara taught that the individual self and ultimate reality are one, and separation is an illusion of ignorance. Seeing oneness can ground compassion for others.

  2. IDEA 2

    Knowledge liberates

    Liberation comes through discrimination between the lasting and the passing, and through self-inquiry. Understanding, not ritual alone, frees the mind.

  3. IDEA 3

    Unity across a subcontinent

    He travelled widely and set up monasteries in four corners of India. Ideas and institutions can knit a diverse land together.

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