The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya Quotes

“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.”
― Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

“Sickness is not cured by saying 'Medicine,' but by drinking it;”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

“at peace like a fuelless fire;”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

“Of the plant of birth and death, the seed is Darkness, the sprout is the thought that body is Self, the shoot is rage, the sap is deeds, the body is the stem, the life-breaths are the branches, the tops are the bodily powers, sensuous things are the flowers, sorrow is the fruit, born of varied deeds and manifold; and the Life is the bird that eats the fruit.”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

“Who is more self-deluded than he who is careless of his own welfare after gaining a hard-won human birth and manhood, too?”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

“for he who grasps the unreal is bound; mark this, my companion.”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya