Do not treat anybody as your friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not waste your mental energies in the thoughts of friendship or enmity. Be equal to all since all this is pervaded by the one supreme reality. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

You never identify yourself with the shadow 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. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Don’t proud yourself of wealth, people and youth. All these are destroyed by time within the wink of an eye. Therefore, chant the name of Govinda if you have to save yourself during the last moment of your life. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

The self undergoes no modification, nor can knowledge arise in any manner from individual consciousness (alone). And yet, one ignorantly imagines that the individual soul knows, does and sees everything well. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

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. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Realise That to be Brahman, the attainment of which leaves nothing more to be attained, the blessedness of which leaves no other blessing to be desired and the knowledge of which leaves nothing more to be known. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

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That Reality is One; though, owing to illusion, It appears to be multiple names and forms, attributes and changes, It always remains unchanged. [It is] like gold which, while remaining one, is formed into various ornaments. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

One should become aware of oneself, indivisible, and perfect; free from identification with all things transient, such as one’s body, functions, mind, and the sense of being the doer, for all these are the product of ignorance. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

When youthfulness has passed, where is lust and its play? When water is evaporated, where is the lake? When the wealth is reduced, where is the retinue? When the Truth is realised, where is the bonding with the outside world? #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Thy wealth is no assurance of heaven: Therefore be not vain of thy wealth, or of thy family, or of thy Oath. All are fleeting, all must change. Know this and be free. Enter the joy of the Lord. Seek neither peace nor strife. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Thy wealth is no assurance of heaven: Therefore be not vain of thy wealth, or of thy family, or of thy Oath. All are fleeting, all must change. Know this and be free. Enter the joy of the Lord. Seek neither peace nor strife. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

The water drop playing on a lotus petal has an extremely uncertain existence; so also is life ever unstable. Understand, the very world is consumed by disease and conceit, and is riddled with pangs. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara #gyan #spiritual #spirituality #wisdom #quote

As long as there is the ability to earn and save, so long are all your dependants attached to you. Later on, when you come to live with an old, infirm body, no one at home cares to speak even a word with you. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

Because all selves are essentially non-different, and their apparent difference is due to nescience only, the individual soul, after having dispelled nescience by true knowledge, passes into unity with the supreme Self. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

As the mind becomes gradually established in the Self, it proportionately gives up the desire for external objects. When all such desires have been eliminated, there is the unobstructed realization of the Self. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

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. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara