Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कराआचार्य) was an early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism.
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The name of God is so powerful that even if One chants without faith and devotion, destroys all the sins. What can't be achieved through the name of God if chanted with faith and devotion?
When would I have a fortune, when the days will be passed as a single moment, sitting on the bank of Yamuna Devi at Vrindavan, remembering the beautiful form of Shri Krishn?
This is not an ordinary soil. This is Vrindavan’s soil, to which celestial Gods even long for.
In a relaxed pose, one leg crossed over the other, Shri Krishn is sitting under a celestial tree, kalpvrikch, in a most beautiful garden of Vrindavan near the river Yamuna.
In his journey days, wherever Shankaracharya was going to take a seat, before this, his followers were digging that much part of the land and smear it and water it so as to make the soil pious. But when he moved towards Braj, then the spiritual master denied them for the digging of land. The disciples suspected that what happened to the master? Immediately he seated on the land and lied down in the soil of Braj and told now there's no need to spray water. Disciples asking that, oh lord what happened to you then in his reply he sang a very beautiful "Govindastakam".
