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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/you-never-identify-yourself-with-the-shadows-cast-by-your-body-or/)

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## More by Adi Shankara

> [Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/loud-speech-profusion-of-words-and-possessing-skillfulness-in/)

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> [Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/each-thing-tends-to-move-towards-its-own-nature-i-always-desire/)

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> [Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/reality-can-be-experienced-only-with-the-eye-of-understanding-not/)

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> [Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/just-as-a-stone-a-tree-a-straw-grain-a-mat-a-cloth-a-pot-and-so-on/)

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> [Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/give-up-identification-with-this-mass-of-flesh-as-well-as-with-what/)

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> [The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/the-world-like-a-dream-full-of-attachments-and-aversions-seems-real/)

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> [Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/curb-your-senses-and-your-mind-and-see-the-lord-within-your-heart/)

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> [Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/space-seems-broken-and-diverse-because-of-the-many-forms-in-it-remove/)

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> [ Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss\[Sat-Chit-Ananda\]. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/thus-one-should-know-oneself-to-be-of-the-nature-of-existence/)

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> [Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/do-not-be-proud-of-wealth-people-relations-and-friends-or-youth-all/)

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> [There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/there-is-sorrow-in-finitude-the-self-is-beyond-time-space-and-objects/)

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> [ The witness of the three states of consciousness \[waking, dream and deep sleep\] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/the-witness-of-the-three-states-of-consciousness-waking-dream-and/)

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> [Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/knowing-that-i-am-different-from-the-body-i-need-not-neglect-the-body/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/to-be-free-from-bondage-the-wise-person-must-practise-discrimination/)

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> [As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adi-shankara/as-gold-purified-in-a-furnace-loses-its-impurities-and-achieves-its/)

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