Приписывается: Adi Shankara
«Truth is one; the wise call it by many names.»
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Этого нет в трудах: Adi Shankara
Often ascribed to Śaṅkara on quotation websites, it actually comes from the Ṛgveda (1.164.46: "ekaṃ sad viprā bahudhā vadanti"), centuries earlier than him.
Источник: Menon, Sangeetha. «Vedanta, Advaita». Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Что было сказано на самом деле
Подлинные слова: Adi Shankara
«It is a matter not requiring any proof that the object and the subject whose respective spheres are the notion of the 'Thou' (the Non-Ego) and the 'Ego', and which are opposed to each other as much as darkness and light are, cannot be identified.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya, prólogo sobre la superposición (adhyāsabhāṣya), frase inicial; trad. inglesa de Thibaut, SBE 34 (1890); versión española del investigador
«Superimposition is the apparent presentation, in the form of remembrance, to consciousness of something previously observed, in some other thing.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya, adhyāsabhāṣya (definición de adhyāsa); Thibaut, SBE 34
«For everybody is conscious of the existence of (his) Self, and never thinks 'I am not'.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya 1.1.1; Thibaut, SBE 34