[1] His books, articles and lectures have made an impact on disciples, pandits, sadhus and scholars in the field of classical Indian philosophy.

Satchidanandendra Swamiji authored some 200 works, and he dedicated his life to teaching about the pure Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Shankara.

[citation needed] Satchidanandendra Saraswati was a philosopher[2] who dedicated all his life for the Vedanta sadhana and attained Brahma-jnana.

[citation needed] Having grown up in an orthodox South Indian Brahmin family, young Y. Subbaraya Sharma (as was his name prior to sannyasa) became attached to Vedanta and Hindu philosophy.

Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati soon became well known for having shown that the later Vedantic tradition had in fact deviated from the teachings of the classical acharyas Gaudapada, Shankara and Sureshvara.

[citation needed] According to Satchidanandendra Saraswati, Shankara employed a method called Adhyaropa Apavada, in which a property is imposed (adhyaropa) on Atman to convince one of its existence, whereafter the imposition is removed (apavada) to reveal the true nature of Atman as nondual and undefinable.