Adi Shankara Quotes on Truth
Adi Shankara was an Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, the school of non-dualism. This page collects quotes attributed to Adi Shankara on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Adi Shankara:
“Brahman alone is real; the world is illusory; the individual self is non-different from Brahman.”
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Attributed to Adi Shankara:
“Pleasure and pain are mere ideas, transient and unreal; renounce them.”
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Attributed to Adi Shankara:
“He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings has no fear.”
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“Brahman (the existential substratum) is the only truth, the world is illusion, and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and individual self.”
Brahma satyam jagat mithyam, jivo brahmaiva naparah -
“When the force of desire for the Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.”
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