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| caption = [[Gaudapada]]charya, the guru of Govinda Bhagavadpada, the grand guru of [[Adi Shankara]] and the first historical proponent of [[Advaita Vedanta]], also believed to be the founder of [[Shri Gaudapadacharya Math]]
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'''Govinda Bhagavatpada''' ([[IAST]] {{IAST|Govinda Bhagavatpāda}}) was the [[Guru]] of the [[Adi Shankara]].<ref name=kamakoti-peeth-origin /> Little is known of his life and works, except that he is mentioned in all the traditional accounts ([[Shankara Vijayams]]) as the teacher of [[Adi Shankara]]. He was the disciple of [[Gaudapada]] ([[IAST]] ''{{IAST|Gauḍapāda}}'').<ref name=sringeri-jagadgurus /> He is mentioned in the first verse of Adi Shankara's [[Adi Shankara#Prakaraņa grantha|Prakaraņa grantha]] (''treatise'') [[Viveka Chudamani]]. He is named after [[Gaudapada]] in the [[Jagadguru of Sringeri Sharada Peetham#Guru Parampara|Guru Parampara]] (''lineage'') of Sringeri Sharada Peetham.<ref name=sringeri-jagadgurus>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sringeri.net/jagadgurus |title = Sringeri Sharada Peetham | Offline}}</ref> He is considered to be an incarnation of [[Shesha]].

==Meeting Adi Shankara==
:''See [[Adi Shankara#Life|Life of Adi Shankara]] for the biography of Adi Shankara''

As per the Madhavīya Shankaravijaya, after leaving [[Kerala]], Adi Shankara reached the banks of the river [[Narmada River|Narmada]] where he met Govinda Bhagavatpada at [[Omkareshwar]]. The Madhavīya Shankaravijaya states that Adi Shankara once calmed a flood from the [[Narmada River|River]] Narmada by placing his kamanḍalu (''water pot'') in the path of the raging water, thus saving his [[Guru]] Govinda Bhagavatpada who was immersed in [[Samādhi]] in a cave nearby. The cave is still maintained in Omkareshwar below the famous Shiva temple. Govinda Bhagavatpada is said to have asked Adi Shankara who he was. Adi Shankara then replied with a verse (which are known as [[Atma Shatkam]] or [[Nirvana Shatkam]]) composed extempore, that brought out clearly the [[Advaita]] philosophy in regard to the Self. Shankara was then initiated as Govinda Bhagavatapada's disciple,<ref name=kamakoti-peeth-origin>{{Cite web | url=http://www.kamakoti.org/peeth/origin.html |title = Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada and Sri Kanchi Kamakoti}}</ref> thus formally entering ''[[sanyasa]]''.

Adi Shankara was then commissioned by his Guru to write a ''[[Bhashya]]'' (commentary) on the [[Brahma Sutra]] and spread the Advaita philosophy far and wide.
''[[Gaudapadacharya]]'' was the guru of Govinda Bhagavatpada.

==See also==
*[[Sringeri Sharada Peetham]]
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