{"id":29521,"date":"2025-10-01T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spirituelle-buchhandlung.de\/autoren\/shankara\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:02:55","slug":"shankara","status":"publish","type":"autoren","link":"https:\/\/advaitamedia.com\/en\/autoren\/shankara\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankara"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29521\" class=\"elementor elementor-29521 elementor-28084\" data-elementor-post-type=\"autoren\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b2ad88d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b2ad88d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-429b893d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"429b893d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26adf27f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"26adf27f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Shankara<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14832e53 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"14832e53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6771596f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6771596f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shankara (686-718 AD), also known as Shankaracharya, a spiritual teacher (acharya), is considered one of the greatest saints, philosophers, and poets of ancient India.<br\/>As a &#8220;child prodigy,&#8221; by the age of ten, he practically knew all sacred scriptures, had written commentaries on them, and debated with scholars about them. When he died at the age of 32, he had reformed a large part of Indian spiritual life, founded ten monastic orders, and left behind a vast literary legacy.<br\/>His teaching, Advaita Vedanta, is one of the six great systems of knowledge and philosophy in India.<\/p><p>&#8220;Brahman, the Absolute Being, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute Bliss, is real. The universe is not real. 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