31 Quotes by Adi Shankara

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

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.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

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.