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Sankara declared himself to be "Brahman," but he admits Narayana or Krsna to be the Supreme Personality who is beyond the material creation. Narayana is never wretched nor daridra rather, He is worshiped by the goddess of fortune, Laksmi, as well as all living entities. Srimad Sankaracarya explicitly says, "You fools, just worship Govinda and that Bhagavad-gita spoken by Narayana Himself," yet foolish people still conduct their research work to find out Narayana consequently they are wretched and they waste their time for nothing. But unfortunate persons say that the Gita is too antiquated for the modern man who wants to find out God by speculation or meditation. One who hears Bhagavad-gita "as is" actually hears the words directly from the lotus lips of the Lord. Therefore the Bhagavad-gita is as worshipable as Lord Krsna Himself, both being absolute. No one would care to read the Gita if it had been spoken by a material man, and certainly Vyasadeva wouldn't have bothered even to incorporate it into the history of the Mahabharata. According to the above verses, Mahabharata is the history of the ancient world, and Vyasadeva is the writer of this great epic. Bhagavad-gita is identical with Krsna and because Krsna is the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no difference between Krsna and His words. Sankara's preaching of impersonalism is especially meant for teaching foolish persons who consider Krsna to be an ordinary man composed of matter. He descends in His spiritual eternal form, but foolish people mistake His body to be like unto ours.
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Lord Krsna is the same Supreme Personality, and He has no connection with a material body. The Lord existed before the creation as the transcendental personality, and He has nothing to do with material personality. In the very beginning of his commentary on the Gita, he maintains that Narayana, the Supreme Lord, is transcendental to the material creation. When he spoke of Supreme Brahman as impersonal, he did not mean that the Lord's sac-cid-ananda form was to be confused with a material conception of personality. But he never denied the spiritual form known as sac-cid-ananda-vigraha or the eternal all-blissful form of knowledge which existed before the material creation. Srimad Sankaracarya was an impersonalist from the materialist point of view. Sankara's most famous treatise is Viveka-cudamani, and his other works include Sariraka-bhasya and Prayers for Krsna.) Although he took up the impersonalist guise to better battle the Buddhists impersonalism is much akin to Buddhism the commentary rendered below, as well as other writings, reveal him to be a devotee of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Appearing in India in the 6th century A.D., he single-handedly drove the Buddhist philosophy out of India and reestablished Vedic culture, all in his short lifetime of 32 years.
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(Sri Sankaracarya or Sankara is considered to be an incarnation of Lord Siva, as the Padma Purana testifies. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, Back To Godhead, Vol. Authorized Purports on Sripada Sankaracarya's Meditation on the Bhagavad-gitaīy His Divine Grace A.C.