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

Manifestation Ornament
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

Temple
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
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
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

Loud Scripture
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 SHANKARA

Awareness Identify Mass
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
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
ADI SHANKARA

Description Mindset
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

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

Ego

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