[Advaita-l] Shuka and Gaudapada

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

On Sunday, February 26, 2012, abhishek sm wrote:

> In that case, many sages, sanyasins,etc can be regarded as
> chiranjeevis. Nevertheless, that's not my primary question. My
> question correlates to how Sri Gaudapada was found and taken up by Sri
> Shuka. Is there any tale like the ones pertaining to Sri Shankara and
> his 4 main disciples?
>
> I don't think the dig vijayas as talk about that -  may be they do,
scholars can clarify. If you want stories, you can meet gaudapada :) One
mutt claims to have gaudapada as the reigning matathipathi :) My point is
look for literary and archelogical evidence - stories abound in India.