Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara Quotes about Brahman
By knowing Brahman one achieves Immortality here [in this body]. There is no other way to its attainment.
Brahman alone is real, the world is the appearance [of Brahman]; and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and Atman, individual self.
He who knows this Brahman, hidden in the cave of the heart, cuts asunder even here the knot of ignorance.
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.
The fetters of the heart are broken, all doubts are resolved, and all works cease to bear fruit, when He (Brahman) is beheld who is both high and low.
What delusion, what sorrow, can there be for him who beholds that oneness [of the jiva and Brahman]?
The gods and seers of yore who knew It (Brahman) attained eternal peace—and not others.
He who sees himself in all beings, by means of his true understanding, first attains unity with all and then realizes the eternal Brahman.
Those who are absorbed in Brahman become immortal.
Those who know It (Brahman) become immortal.
After knowing It (Brahman) one is not stained by sinful action.