Adi Shankara famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Giving Up #Eye #People
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
-- Adi Shankara

#Mother #Real #Self
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 me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
-- Adi Shankara

#Moving #Sorrow #Desire
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 the Vedic scriptures.
-- Adi Shankara

#Teaching #Goal #Gita
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
-- Adi Shankara

#Wise #Self #Meditation
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 supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
-- Adi Shankara

#Strong #Self #Meditation
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 world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
-- Adi Shankara

#Self #Knowing #House
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.
-- Adi Shankara

#Speech #Scripture #Loud
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
-- Adi Shankara

#Passion #Ignorance #Self
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 or enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.
-- Adi Shankara

#Cousin #Brother #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 of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
-- Adi Shankara

#Inspiration #Reality #Attachment
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
-- Adi Shankara

#Heart #Meditation #Mind
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
-- Adi Shankara

#Consciousness #Bliss #Should
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
-- Adi Shankara

#Truth #Real #Self
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

#Dream #Sleep #Self
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
-- Adi Shankara

#Ego
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
-- Adi Shankara

#Mind #Treasure #Awareness
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 as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
-- Adi Shankara

#Giving Up #Past #Thinking
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

#Self #Space #Sorrow
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
-- Adi Shankara

#Lasts #Grammar
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
-- Adi Shankara

#Imagination #Gold #Different

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