Adi Shankara

the body and so on, up to the causal body.

Ignorance, which are objects perceived, are as perishable as bubbles.

Realize through discrimination that I am the pure Brahman, ever completely separate from all these.

I am other than the body, and so I am free from changes such as birth, wrinkling, senility, death.

I have nothing to do with the sense objects such as sound and taste, for I am without the sense organs.

I am other than the mind and hence I am free from sorrow, attachment, malice and fear.

For that is without breath and without mind.

Pure is the commandment of the great scripture, the Upanishads.

I am without attributes and actions, eternal, without any desire and thought, without any dirt, without any change, without form, ever liberated, ever pure.

Like the space, I feel all things within and without, changeless and the same in all.

At all times I am pure, unattached, stainless and motionless.

I am verily that Supreme Brahman alone, which is eternal, pure and free, one, indivisible and non-dual, and of the nature of changeless knowledge, infinite.

The impression, I am Brahman, thus created by constant practice, destroys ignorance and the agitation caused by it, just as medicine destroys disease.

sitting in a solitary place, freeing the mind from desires and controlling the senses, meditate with unswerving attention on the Atman, which is one without a second.

The wise one should intelligently merge the entire world of objects in the Atman alone and constantly think of the self never as contaminated by anything like the sky.

One who has realized the Supreme discards all their identification with the objects of names and forms.

Thereafter, they dwell as an embodiment of the infinite consciousness and bliss.

They become the Self.

There are no distinctions such as Noah, the knowledge and the object of knowledge in the Supreme Self.

On account of its being of the nature of endless bliss, it does not admit of such distinctions within itself.