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Top 20 Adi Shankara Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

— Adi Shankara

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Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

2. “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

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Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

3. “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

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Adi Shankara Quote: “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 enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.”

4. “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 enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.”

— Adi Shankara

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Adi Shankara Quote: “Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.”

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

7. “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

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

8. “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

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

9. “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

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

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.”

11. “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

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

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Adi Shankara Quote: “When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.”

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Adi Shankara

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

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

— Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Adi Shankara Quote: “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.”

20. “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

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