Ramana, Shankara and the Forty Verses The Essential Teachings of Advaita

Shankara is known as the Shankaracharya which means Acharya 'one who sets the example'. He was a child prodigy, and a genius. At 8 he was reputed to have mastered the Vedas. At 16 he had written his commentary on the Brahma Sutras. He later wrote seminal commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita and the principal Upanishads and was determined to save the Vedic teaching from onslaughts by Buddhists and Jains. Many miracles were reported during his lifetime. At the age of 32 he suddenly died having established monastic orders in the four corners of India. These orders have flourished, even until today and have played a great part in the spiritual heritage of India Sri Ramana Maharshi (1897 to 1950) was born into a Brahman family. His father died suddenly in 1892 and this death experience led to his Self-Realisation. He then moved to the sacred mountain Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, which he never left. In 1907 he was given the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by the famed Poet-Saint Ganapati-Muni. In 1922 his mother died and his Ashram was built. He is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest spiritual figures of the Twentieth Century, as he taught largely through silenceMaharshi, Ramana is the author of 'Ramana, Shankara and the Forty Verses The Essential Teachings of Advaita' with ISBN 9781842930427 and ISBN 1842930427.