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 SHANKARAFrom 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 SHANKARAThe witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self.
ADI SHANKARACurb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
ADI SHANKARAEach 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 SHANKARAThus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
ADI SHANKARAReality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
ADI SHANKARAWhat is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
ADI SHANKARAGive 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 SHANKARAWhen your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
ADI SHANKARASpace 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 SHANKARATo 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 SHANKARAAll 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 SHANKARADo 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 SHANKARAThe treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
ADI SHANKARAAs 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 SHANKARAThe world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
ADI SHANKARA