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Adi Shankara

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Philosopher

Adi Shankara, an influential Indian philosopher active from 788 to 820 AD, is considered one of the most important thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His ideas profoundly impacted Indian philosophy, logic, and theology.

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“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.”

World Made Different Imagination Existence Eternal Gold Ornaments Vishnu

Author:Adi Shankara

“Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.”

Body Light Earth Spiritual Darkness Sun Fire Tree Stones Pot Organs Grain Burned Straws Brahman

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“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.”

Should Dream Body Imagination Reflection Shadow Casts Your Body Advaita Spiritual Awakening

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“Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.”

Self Seems Form Space Broken Pure Remains Remove Diverse

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“The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.”

World Real Dream Seems Awakening Attachment Aversion

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“Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar”

Reality Eye Understanding Scholar

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“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.”

Persons Self Joy Consciousness Wise Meditation Pure Ego Discrimination Bliss Bondage Practise Wise Person

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“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.”

Has Beens Stills Self States Strong Meditation Ego Remains Constant Awakening Supreme Impression Agents Realised Identification Obstinate

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“The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.”

Mind Found Awareness Treasure

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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.”

Self Time Space Objects Sorrow Absolutes Infinite Finitude

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“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.”

Happiness Moving Desire Nature Sorrow Burden True Nature

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“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.”

Speech Scripture Liberation Loud Enjoyment Possessing

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“When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.”

Lasts Can Do Breaths Grammar

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

Self Action Passion Ignorance Capable Atman

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

World Real Self Dream Reality Seems Mother Appearance Silver Pearls

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“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.”

Thinking Giving Wells Self Past Imagination Awareness Giving Up Mass Intellectual Flesh True Self Recognise Identification Past Present Times Past

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“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.”

People Knows World Giving Eye Wealth Youth Proud Giving Up Relation Supreme Be Proud Blink Illusory Blink Of An Eye

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“Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.”

Looks Self Energy Term Brother Equal Seeking Cousin Foe Enmity Amiable

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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.”

Knowledge Ego Omniscient

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“The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self”

Self States Dream Body Three Sleep Existence Consciousness Witness Bliss Waking States Of Consciousness Deep Sleep

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“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.”

Mind Reality Inspiration Loses Practice Meditation Achieve Gold Purity Delusion Attachment Attributes True Nature Meditation Practice Furnaces Impurity

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“What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.”

Real Self Truth Conviction Firm Unreal Enquiry

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“Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].”

Knows Should Existence Consciousness Oneself Bliss Sat Knowing Oneself

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“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.”

Humans Goal Existence Clear Teaching Scripture Manifest Fulfilled Human Existence Gita Quintessence

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“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.”

World Needs Different Self Use Body House Knowing Pure Temples Neglect Vehicle

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“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”

Mind Heart Lord Meditation Senses Curb

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About the Author

Born: 788
Died: 820
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 26

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