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Shrii Shankara Bhagavatpaada (788 - 820 AD; potkas tyhjää siis
32-vuotiaana??) lienee yksi kuuluisimmista intialaisen filosofian
edustajista.

Hän diggasi advaita-vedaantaa (ei-kakseus-vedaantaa, eli monistista
vedan loppua: vain brahma[n] on aikuisten oikeesti olemassa; kaikki
muu on maayaa'ta eli illuusiota). Oikeastaan hän taisi olla yksi
tuon suuntauksen perustajista?

Shankara katsotaan perustaneen eri puolille Intiaa ainankin neljä
maThaa eli "luostarista" oppituolia. Pohjoisin niistä on
Himaalajan juurella sijaitseva Jyotir-maTha eli Valon luostari-opisto.

Tuo Jyotir-maTha oli yli 150:n vuoden ajan ilman johtajaa eli
shankaraacaaryaa (mitat täyttävää jeppeä ei ollut ollut tarjolla) kunnes Svaamii Brahmaananda Sarasvatii (SBS) vuosikausia
kestäneiden maanittelujen jälkeen suostui ottamaan vastaa tuon
duunin vuonna 1941, tai silleen.

SBS kulkee, kuten moni muukin arvostettu opettaja, nimellä Guru
Deva (hindiksi Guru Dev).

Tämä Guru Dev(a) on tullut lännessä kuuluisaksi TM-liikkeen
perustajan, Maharishi Mahesh Yogin (Mahesh Prasad Varma porvarilliselta nimeltään) guruna. MMY toimi SBS:n henk. koht.
sihteerinä noin 13:n vuoden ajan aina GD:n kuolemaan (1953) astikka.


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1954 to present [edit]
After the death of Brahmananda in 1953, Swāmī Hariharānanda Saraswatī, a now deceased disciple of Brahmananda, was offered the title but refused to accept it.[3] Later it was revealed that five months before his death, Brahamananda had made a will and registered it with the District Registrar in Allahabad.[1] The will named his disciple, Swami Shantanand Saraswati as his successor and Swāmī Dvārakeśānanda Saraswatī, Swāmī Viṣṇudevānanda Saraswatī and Swāmī Paramātmānanda Saraswati as alternate choices.[3] As a result Swami Shantanand Saraswatī assumed the Shankarcharya-ship but his authority was disputed by several of Brahmananda's disciples and followers who did not feel that Shantanand met the requirements described in the Mahānuśāsana texts.[3] Meanwhile others claimed that Brahmānanda's death was due to poisoning, and that his will was not authentic, causing civil lawsuits to be filed by concerned parties.[3]


Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati
Relevant organizations involved in reviving Jyotir Math, including a committee of pundits from Varanasi,[4] proposed Swāmī Kṛiṣṇabodha Āśrama as the Shankaracharya despite Śhāntānand's claim and occupation of Jyotir Math. Asrama died in 1973[4] and nominated his disciple Swarupananda, a disciple of Brahmananda who had taken Swami Krishnabodha Ashrama as his guru after Brahmananda's death, as his successor. However because Shantananda still occupied the Jyotir Math ashram built by Brahmananda, Swaraupananda took residence in a nearby building or ashram, said to be located near the former cave of Adi Shankara disciple, Trotakacharya.[4][6]
During his tenure, Shantanand was "supportive" of another Brahamananda disciple Maharishi Mahesh Yogi[7] and "often appeared with him in public".[8] However, in 1980, Śhāntānanda vacated the Shankarcharya position in favor of Swāmī Viṣṇudevānanda Saraswatī, an additional disciple that was named in Brahmananda's will as an alternate choice for the Shankaracharya-ship. Author Williamson writes that Shantanand was removed by the other Shankarcharya's due to his "incompetence" and speculates that his relationship with the Maharishi may have been a contributing factor.[8] However, Shantanand's successor, Vishnudevananda, also spoke well of the Maharishi[9] and publicly demonstrated his support by presiding over the Maharishi's First International Yogic Flying Competition in New Delhi in July 1986.[10][11] Viṣṇudevānanda died in 1989 and Swāmī Vāsudevānanda Saraswatī succeeded him. Former Shankaracharya, Shāntānand, then died in 1997.[3]
Another claimant is Mādhavā Aśrama who disputes the lineage of Vasudevananda and Swarupananda and who was appointed leader of Jyotir Math in the 1960s. He contends that Swaroopananda cannot accept the title of Shankaracharya for both the western and northern mathas in which case the title reverts to a subsequent disciple of Krishnabodha Asrama. Madhava Asrama was reportedly appointed leader of Jyotir Math under the auspices of Shri Niranjana Deva Tirtha who was the Shankarcharya of Puri at that time.[4]
These events have resulted in three separate lineages at Jyotir Math despite Swarupananda being endorsed by other Adi Shankara mathas.[4] These lineages include Swaroopananda, the leader of the Dvaraka Math in the West and Mādhavā Aśrama (both disciples of Kṛiṣṇabodha Āśrama) as well as Vāsudevānanda Saraswatī who occupies the monastery built by Brahmananda in 1941.[3]

 Knowledge is unlimited and available at all times. It manifests itself according to the
need of the time. It is   only available when the need arises. The stream of love and truth is one, but
man catches it in two different ways, by heart or by mind. By heart he means his
love, by mind he means his knowledge. But in fact the stream of love and truth
is always the same. It is always present in the world and always will be present
in the world but people will only take as much as their destiny offers, or as
they need. > > -Swami Shantanand Saraswati [Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math]