Sankaracharya and Maya

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Sankaracharya and Maya

 

 

VlSHNUVARDHANA, the King of the Hoysalas, was a Vaishnavite and was

greatly incensed at the doctrine taught by Sankaracharya that

everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent

of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Sankaracharya of

Sringeri to his palace. That holy man went there and stoutly maintained

that everything in this world was illusion. The king had arranged to

let loose an infuriated elephant against Sankaracharya. The beast

rushed at Sankaracharya who took to a precipitate flight to save

himself.

 

 

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

 

'Oh, king,' said Sankaracharya in tfie course of his flight, 'my

running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.' -- With Love,Ganesh Baba