Adi_Shankara wiki Published November 28, 2013 at 200 × 230 in J.D. Salinger, ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters’ – a critique Adi Shankara Bhagavadpada, expounder of Advaita Vedanta, commentator on the Upanishads Om symbol as written in Devanagari, the alphabet of Hindi in India, and since the 19C of Sanskrit: it’s a mantra and mystical sound sacred in Dharmic religions