Adi Shankara on awakening
Adi Shankara23 quotes“The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.”
Filed under
More from Adi Shankara
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 ShankaraAdi 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 ShankaraAdi Shankara The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara 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 ShankaraAdi Shankara But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara 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 ShankaraAdi Shankara You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
Adi ShankaraAdi 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. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara 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 ShankaraAdi 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 to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
Adi ShankaraAdi 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 Self.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara
Original quotes
From our community writers
Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
Meet the writers
More on awakening
Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz You are one thought away from a spiritual awakening.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Right now we’re in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein What dies in awakening is not you, but ignorance.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Spiritual awakening is not about knowing everything and about being powerful. Quite the opposite is true. It is about resting deeply into not knowing, and about being so sensible and fragile that the belief of the ego dissolve into silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Awakening is a natural process.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland In the moment you choose not to be vulnerable towards your pain and suffering you also build a wall towards happiness, towards awakening.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland What seems like a inward journey of awakening, is life unfolding itself, already awake.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland
