Adi Shankara,
The Crest Jewel of Wisdom — The Three Kinds of Works
(1946)
“ From the knowledge that I am the Eternal, the accumulated Works, heaped up even through hundreds of myriads of ages, melt away like the work of dream, on awaking.Whatever one does while dreaming, however good or bad it seems, what effect has it on him, on awaking to send him either to hell or heaven? ”
Adi Shankara,
The Crest Jewel of Wisdom — The Three Kinds of Works
(1946)
“ Thus dwelling in the supreme Eternal, through the real Self, he stands and beholds naught else. Like the memory of an object looked on in dream, so is it, for the wise, with eating or the other acts of life.The body is built up through Works; the Works entered upon make for the building up of various forms; but the Self is not built up through works. ”
Adi Shankara,
The Crest Jewel of Wisdom — The Three Kinds of Works
(1946)
“ Whence can come the death of what has not even been born? Whence can come the entering on of what does not even exist?--if there be a melting away of the effects of unwisdom, root and all, through the power of wisdom.How does this body stand? In the case of him who takes inert things to be real, Works entered on are supported by the sight of outward things--thus says the scripture; yet it does not teach the reality of the body and the like, to the wise.One, verily, is the Eternal, without a second. There is no difference at all. ”
