Why Sankara established Mayavada or Advaita vad Philosophy? 🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 Siva spoke to Parvati as follows: mayavadam asac-chastram pracchannah baudham ucyate mayaiva kalpitam devi kalau brahmana-rupina O Goddess, in the age of Kali I shall descend in the form of a brahmana to spread this Mayavada philosophy which is actually covered Buddhism. (Padma Purana) Supreme Lord ordered Siva in this way: svagamaih kalpitais tvam ca janan mad-vimukhan kuru mam ca gopaya yena syat srstir esottarottara Make the general public averse to Me by some imaginary hypothesis from you. Also camouflage me, so that the public will be deluded gradually by desire for material advancement. (Padma Purana) Also, in the Varaha Purana Lord Visnu instructs Siva saying: esa moham srjamy asu yo janan mohayisyati tvam ca rudra maha-baho moha-sastrani karaya O mighty-armed Siva, please write books filled with lies, and thus bewilder the people. atathyani vitathyani darsayasva maha-...