Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the… — 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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