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“When the Great Reality is not known the study of the scriptures is fruitless; when the Great Reality is known the study of the scriptures is also fruitless.”
― The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya
― The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya
“All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights".”
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“When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
“Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?”
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“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.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
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