Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1. INTRODUCTION - 2 : Swami Chinmayananda

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14/11/2018
1. INTRODUCTION : 2.

It was at such a time, when our society was fertile for any ideal thought or practical philosophy to thrive, that the beautiful values of non-injury, self-control, love and affection of the Buddha came to enchant alike the kings and their subjects of this country.

But the general decadence of the age did not spare the Buddhists also.

They among themselves, precipitated different viewpoints, and by the time Sri Swami Adi Sankaracharya appeared on the horizon of  history of Sanatana Dharmam (  Hindu history ), the atheistic school of Buddhists ( Asad-Vadis ) had enticed away large sections the people of Bharatham.

It was into such a chaotic intellectual atmosphere that Swami Adi Sri Sankaracharya brought his life-giving philosophy of the "NON-DUAL BRAHMAM OF THE UPANISHADS."


It can be very well understood what a colossal work it must have been fir a single man to undertake in those days,* (*7th/9th centuries AD ) when modern conveniences of mechanical transport and instruments of propaganda were unknown.

The genius in Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya did solve the problem, and by the time he had placed at rest his mortal coil, he had wiped the "false Buddhistic ideology" beyond  the shores of our country, and had reintegrated the philosophical thoughts in the then Aryavarta.

After centuries of wandering, no doubt richer for her various experiences, but tired and fatigued, Bharatham came back to her own native thoughts.

To be continued ...


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