Adi Shankara Quotes

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• Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This…
• The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
• There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
• Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to…
• Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
• When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
• Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
• Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
• Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self…
• 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…
• Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship…
• But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
• The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self
• 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…
• What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
• Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
• From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of…
• Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the…
• Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

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