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Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani QUOTES

Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani QUOTES

1 " When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani

2 " Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani

3 " You never identify yourself with the shadow 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. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani

4 " Where renunciation and longing for liberation are weak, tranquillity and the other virtues are a mere appearance, like the mirage in the desert. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani

5 " Yeilding to the power of rajas, he identifies himself with the many motions and changes of the mind. Therefore he is swept hither and thither, now rising, now sinking, in the boundless ocean of birth and death, whose waters are full of the poison of sense-objects. This is indeed a miserable fate. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani