This man is credited with laying out the fivefold system of worship used in Smartism.
This man is credited with laying out the fivefold system of worship used in Smartism. When this man was attacked by a crocodile, he asked his mother to let him become a sannyasin, after which the crocodile let him go. In one tale, this man's anger at a scholar offering grammar lessons for money led him to compose the devotional hymn Bhaja Govindam. This traveling man, who ended his life by attaining the state of samadhi in a Himalayan cave at age 32, was called Eka-Sruti-Dara as a child because he could remember any text after reading it once. This man's work Upadesasahasri asserts that everything is an illusion except the nirguna, or "attributeless," (*) Brahman. This author of the earliest surviving commentary on the Brahma Sutra is said to have founded four monasteries at the edges of India.  For 10 points, name this 9th-century Hindu theologian who systematized the monist Advaita Vedanta philosophy.
This man is credited with laying out the fivefold system of worship used in Smartism.
Adi Shankaracharya [or Sankara; accept Eka-Sruti-Dara until mention]