This is a true story.
A rebel who was also a reformer, challenged the philosopher
to a debate the one who would be defeated would leave the society for good.
The debate went on for 15 days and ultimately the
philosopher accepted defeat.
The philosopher’s wife then challenged the reformer. Now
she was face to face with the person who could answer all, the person who no
one could defeat.
She did not ask him any question
from philosophy or Vedas or any high level study.
She asked him a simple question on sexual union between man
and woman, a subject which the reformer could not answer since he was an
ascetic.
Having known her opponent to be a renunciate she put the
right question for the right opponent; for she was a woman
of wisdom who analyzed her opponent well………the story goes on.
In this true story the rebel, the reformer happens to be
Adi Shankaracharya, the philosopher Maṇḍana
Miśra and his wife Ubhaya Bhāratī.
I have always believed that women have more mental strength
than men.
Adi Shankaracharya rebelled against the brahmin lobby
(self-appointed custodians of religion) and challenged all,
he travelled Indiawide establishing monasteries and reestablishing
ancient temples and propagating his philosophy through discourses and debates
with other thinkers.
In my other articles I have written why he started the
tradition of the char dham yatra and gave the science of the eternal flame to
the Badrinath temple (a flame which keeps on burning)
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