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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

Adi Shankara

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
ADI SHANKARA

Action Bond Ignorance Interest Remove
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

Existence Imagination Manifestation Nature Ornament World
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

Body Different Myself Need Purity Temple World
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

Achievement Attachment Attain Gold Illusion Loss Reality Yourself
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

Reality Truth
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

Desire Happiness Move Nature Sorrow
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
ADI SHANKARA

Description Finding Mindset Treasure
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
ADI SHANKARA

Consciousness Existence Nature
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
ADI SHANKARA

Breathe Grammar Yourself
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

Bondage Consciousness Discrimination Freedom Recognition
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
ADI SHANKARA

God Heart Mindset
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
ADI SHANKARA

Experience Eyes Reality Scholar
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 SHANKARA

Body Identify Live Reflection Shadow Yourself
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
ADI SHANKARA

Appearance Mother Reality Realize
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

Consciousness Dreams Existence State
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

Eyes Friendship Illusion People Proud Wealth World Yourself Youth

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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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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