Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
ADI SHANKARAYou 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.
More Adi Shankara Quotes
-
-
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 -
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
ADI SHANKARA -
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
ADI SHANKARA -
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 -
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 -
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
ADI SHANKARA -
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 -
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
ADI 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 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 SHANKARA -
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
ADI 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 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 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 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 SHANKARA