Hastamalaka Stotram of Adi Shankaracharya

A small boy who was already a realized soul, narrated his experience of Self-Knowledge to Bhagwan Adi Shankaracharya. To the boy this knowledge was clear as ‘a gooseberry (amalaka) kept on the palm (hasta), and so the boy was named Hastamalaka. He became famous as one of the four renowned disciples of the Acharya and the conversation complied by the Acharya is “Hastamalaka Stotram”.