Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara Quotes about World
Brahman alone is real, the world is the appearance [of Brahman]; and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and Atman, individual self.
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.
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.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The wise investigate all forms, and departing from this world, attain Immortality.
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.
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.