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Vishnu Ananthasayanam Cosmic Hibernation

Sometimes I dream that I write and on waking up I find it is untrue and that I have been dreaming.

Now I am writing this post.

How can I be certain now that this activity is not being done while asleep?

This action of writing now may be a dream and I may wake up.

This is a problem not solved by Philosophy.

Hinduism describes four states of Being.

Jagrat, the waking state.

Swapna, the dreaming state,

Then Shankaracharya dates back to between 4300-4000 BC!

But the Bhakti Literature mentions Gnana Sambhanda around 7 Century AD when Tirunavukkasar is mentioned as a contemporary of Sambanda.

This is supported by to other evidence in Tamil.

So Shankaracharya' date may be after 7 Century AD.

Now to the view that Shankaracharya did not establish the four Mutts.