Atma Bodha Quotes

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Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.
Shankara
Through ignorance, movements of the waters are attributed to the reflected moon dancing on it. Likewise agency of action, of enjoyment and other limiting adjuncts—which really belong to the mind—are delusively misunderstood as the nature of the Self: Ātman.
Adi Shankaracharya (Atma Bodha & Aparoksha Anubhuti: Die Erkenntnis des Selbst & Die direkte Verwirklichung des Selbst (German Edition))