You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye.… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. — Adi Shankara Copy Share
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara Copy Share
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the… — Adi Shankara Copy Share
