Shankara's Quotes: top 24 famous quotes about Shankara's

Shankara's Quotes & Sayings

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

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life — Donna Tartt

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise. — Thomas Watson

What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage — Carol Cottrill

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

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. — 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

Pretend you want to do something else and write on the sly until you're free to do whatever you want! — J.K. Rowling

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete. — Joakim Noah

One of his hands finds its way through the expensive implanted follicles of hair that line his forehead. — Colleen Hoover

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

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. — Troy Perry

It is not an event; it is a piece of news. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it. — Adi Shankara

The moment we understand life, we will begin to live. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar — Adi Shankara

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me. — Kevin Gates

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga. — Frederick Lenz

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

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. — Adi Shankara

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't — Jeff Smith