As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold. — 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 Image
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 Image
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
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 Image
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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