Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 788 Death: 820
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness..
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This ha….
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 n….
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 wo….
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. Se….
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….
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 ….
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing..
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart..
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal..
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the 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 delusio….
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient..
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..
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it..
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose natur….
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized..
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]..
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, ….
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. T….