sankarachargya

Updated: May 25, 2025

Whether, like Sankarachargya, we think of the Deity objectively, as the formless and literally omnipresent Being, the pure Being which, according to Hegel, equals nothing, or whether like Swami Vivekananda we think of man and God as really one, all differentiation being a delusion within the mind there is no second, neither any second to sin against nor any second to commit the sin.

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

Or if further illustration be needed of the incompatibility of the ideas of pantheism and sin, listen to the striking prayer of Sankarachargya, the pantheistic Vedantist of the eighth century A.D., with whom is identified the pantheistic motto, "One only, without a second." It attracts our attention because Sankarachargya is professedly confessing sins.

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments