Recited by the teacher and the students, as the prayer before commencement of every class, this shloka offers salutations to Ishwara, Adi Shankaracharya and one’s own Guru now in this lineage.

The Shastras do not promise liberation as an event in time. In its vision, the self-atma, is ever free. This teaching is expressed in form of Maha Vakyas (great equation) – tat tvam asi, the jiva is no different from Ishvara.

To unfold the vision of this identity between jiva and Ishvara, Vedanta employs a number of prakriyas i.e. methods as provided in the Upanishads. Exposure to a wrong method makes one miss this core vision of the teaching.

When one receives the teaching from a traditional teacher, one learns to handle the prakriyas in the right way. Where one does not know to handle in the way they should be, one would only land up with more confusions and conflicts than that he had before Vedanta!

It is not only the Vedas, the body of knowledge that originated from the Lord, but also the parampara, the teaching tradition. The first Guru is Ishwara, and he reveals his svarupa through the shastra. The shastras are handled by teachers, and thereby Ishwara is revealed to a student. This parampara is an unblocked conduit. Such flow of knowledge can never be obstructed anywhere, as long as one puts aside own ideas and notions and handles shastras as the sole means of Knowledge referred as Pramana. Thus what gets communicated is the vision of the Vedas, nothing more, nothing less.

Therefore, all the acharyas in this parampara, who are, but the embodiment of the knowledge, perpetuate the vision of the Vedas. The parampara is therefore as important as even its vision of oneness because, the understanding is solely dependent on the method of handling and the use of the words unfolding the vision.

The Brahma Vidya Acharyas as mentioned below are Co-students of our Acharya ji hailing from the same traditional teaching lineage.