Once, the Acharya visited Tiptur town in Karnataka’s Tumkur district where Muslims and Hindus were at loggerheads for a long time. Like his predecessors, he was a man of vast learning, humility and renunciation who transformed the lives of innumerable people who came in contact with him. Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati headed the Sringeri Sharada Peetam from 1912-1954 as its 34 th Acharya. The first one came up at a beautiful spot near the river Tunga at Sringeri in present-day Karnataka where an unbroken lineage of Acharyas has devotedly kept alive the Shankara tradition of respecting all sects and religions. The founder of the Shankaracharya order, who revived Hinduism and created an organisational structure to perpetuate its ideals, had set up four maths at Sringeri, Dwaraka, Puri and Joshimath. Indians who seem to draw vicarious pleasure by harassing and humiliating minorities are challenging the religious code of conduct enunciated by the highly revered Adi Shankara.
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