Advaita Quotes

• The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Moving, Self, Doe

  "Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi".

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• You never identify yourself with the shadows 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 Shankara

  Dream, Reflection, Imagination

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• The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Tunes, Spirit

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Unity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.113, A&C Black

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• We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Heart, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1114, Manonmani Publishers

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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