"The witness of the three states of consciousness……" — 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"
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19 Quotes by Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara has 19 quotes on this site.
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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego -…
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The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the…
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Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature…
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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They…
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
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Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is…
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Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual…
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Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the…
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Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental…
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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and…
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More Bliss Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Jacques Charles
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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