Jagadguru Shankaracharya 1955

Jagadguru Shankaracharya is a 1955 Indian Bollywood devotional film released on 1955. The film is directed by S. Fatehlal.
Shankara was born in a Brahmin family in the village of Kalti in Malabar. Before he was eight, Shankara completed the study of the vadas and the Shastras! After leaving the Gurukul, Shankara found that all around him was spread the heresy and hypocrisy in the grab of religion! Shankara vowed to destory the heresy and hypocrisy and to receive the ancient vedic religion. These revolutionery ideas of Shankara frighten his mother sati, and to bring him to his senses, she decided to get him married. For the wedding hs estarted to go across the Purna river with her son. What Divine intervention, what miracles forced the mother to give her unwilling permissio to her son to become a Sanyasin, you will see on the screen! She wept and she sobbed, but Shankara was firm and the delicate child of eight left his mother for the good of Humanry. Facing inumerable dangers of the way he reached Narmada follwed by an immense flood treateing to wash away even the Asharam of the Guru Govindpada. Shankara prayes to mother Narmada, and the glood goes down, Guru Govindpada then ordains him a sanyasin, teaches the 8 sidhis and sends him out! Watch the miracle shankara performs in the rellgious Conference in Benares, and proved Gods existence. For years he stayed in the Vyas-Gupha at Badri Naryan and wrote those wonderful books which have made him one of the foremost philosophers of the world! An additional 16 years lease of life is given to him for revival and propogationof religion. Follows the historicla debate with Mandanmisra who is vanquished by Shankara. But his wife Bharti heckles Shankara about Kamashastra, and Shankara has to ask for time in which he enters a kings dead body, and makes Mandan his Shishya. Going home he meets his dying mother, whose funeral rites are denied to him by the village folk. Again his prayers force the Sun-God to set fire to the funeral pyre, and people realising the divinity of shankara fall at his feet. The task and triumphal March (Digvijaya) is over, and Shankara desiring to leave the world is lead to the Sinhdwara of the Sharda Madir in Kashmir! Watch on the screen the stirring sequence......and the Avatara becoming one with the elements. Check out this page for more updates on Jagadguru Shankaracharya.