Contributions and influences of adishankaracharya on sanatana dharma and indian culture

Adi Shankaracharya is widely regarded as a religious reformer, the formulator and codifier of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, the non-dualistic doctrine based on the Upanishads, and one of the most prominent philosophers and religious leaders in Indian history and the Hindu Sanatan religion. In the year 788 A.D., he was born into a poor Brahmin family in the village of Kaladi, six miles east of Alwaye, Kerala. “He was a Nambudiri Brahmin”, says the narrator. Shankara is the most brilliant mind and the most powerful soul that Mother India has created. Adi Shankara's arrival represents a watershed moment in Indian philosophy and religion, as well as in everyone's personal spiritual development. Shankara is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and theologians in India's Vedic literature. Shankara's scholarly erudition and masterful presentation of complex philosophical problems has attracted the respect of all philosophical schools around the world at this time.