Absolute Happiness Quotes by Adi Shankara

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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…
• 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…
• Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never…
• Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not…
• 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…
• Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of…
• Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in…
• But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

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