Adi Shankara on mindset
Adi Shankara23 quotes“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”
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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 ShankaraAdi Shankara Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara 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 ShankaraAdi 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 The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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.
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