Adi Shankara Quotes

Adi Shankara or Shankara, was an early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism.

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

Adi Shankara
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

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.

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

Adi Shankara
- Mind
- Senses
- Curb
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.

Adi Shankara
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
- World
- Body
- Vehicle
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
- Space
- Diverse
- Forms
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

Adi Shankara
- World
- Reality
- Underlying

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

Adi Shankara
- World
- Real
- Awakening
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.

Adi Shankara
- Mind
- Reality
- Gold