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Adi Shankara (pronounced [aːd̪i ɕəŋkəɾə]) or Shankara, was an early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta.[note 1] He is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism.

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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.

Time, Self, Space, Finitude, Absolute

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.

Amiable, Brother, Cousin, Mental, Self

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.

Teaching, Goal, Gita, Clear, Knowledge, Existence

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.

Blink, Eye, Giving Up, People, Proud, Relations

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

Bliss, Consciousness, Know, Nature, Oneself, Should

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

Heart, Meditation, Mind, See, Senses

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.

Giving Up, Thinking, Past, Enter, Thinks, True

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.

Inspiration, Reality, Attachment, Purity, Loses, Gold

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

Eye, Reality, Scholar, Understanding

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

Awareness, Conceive, Mind, Treasure

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.

Wise, Self, Meditation, Free, Recognising

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.

Strong, Self, Meditation, State, Remains, Impressions

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.

Self, Knowing, House, Neglect, Body

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

Attachment, Aversions, Dream, Like, Real, World

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.

Imagination, Gold, Different, Existence, Things, Intelligence

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

Lasts, Grammar, Breaths, Breath, Arrives

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.

Dream, Reflection, Imagination

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.

Burned, Fire, Light, Reduced, Spiritual, Sun