Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.

Adi Shankara (8c CE-8c CE), Adi Shankara, also called Adi Shankaracharya was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher whose works present a harmonizing reading of the sastras, with liberating knowledge of the self at its core, synthesizing the Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time.