Awareness Quote 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…

— Adi Shankara

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

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

— Adi Shankara

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

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

— Adi Shankara

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

— Adi Shankara

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

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

— Adi Shankara

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

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

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

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