Shankara, Adi
c. 700-800 CE

aka:  AdI Shankaracharya
Indian Hindu philosopher, pundit...

propagated the view that "all is illusory, everything is
maya."

Osho has a book, The Song of Ecstasy, which uses
Adi Shankara as a platform for his own talks.
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So it is simply just an idea that has been perpetuated
for five thousand years that society is divided into four
castes. The caste is by birth, not by action! But the
whole of India believes in it, even people like the great
philosopher Adi Shankara, who founded an order of
sannyasins. He is the most influential man Hindus have
ever produced...

                                                       --Osho
                        The Sword and the Lotus, ch. 19