Vaj wrote: > Because the guru-parampara originates with > Narayana and Shankara was a Vaishnavite... > In the Adwaita parampara, the term Narayana means, 'man', that is, the Transcendental Person, the Purusha.
"...Sankara, who is regarded as an incarnation of Siva." Adwaita Vedanta: http://tinyurl.com/y3343z > Have you read Shankara's Bhaja Govindam? > "Among the independent philosophical treatises, only Upades'asa-hasri- is accepted as authentic by modern academic scholars." Adi Shankara: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara