Adi Shankara

It alone shines by itself.

When this, the lower and the higher aspects of the self, are well churned together, the fire of knowledge is born from it, which in its mighty conflagration shall burn down all the fuel of ignorance in us.

The Lord of the early dawn has already looted away the thick darkness when the sun rises.

The divine consciousness of the self rises when the right knowledge has already killed the darkness in the bosom.

Atman is ever-present reality, yet because of ignorance it is not realized.

On the destruction of ignorance, Atman is realized.

It is like the missing ornament around one's neck.

A Brahman appears to be a Jiva because of ignorance, just as a post appears to be a ghost.

The egocentric individuality is destroyed when the real nature of the Jiva is realized as the self.

The ignorance characterized by the notions I and mine is destroyed by the knowledge produced by the realization of the true nature of the self.

Just as right information removes the wrong notion about the directions,

The yogi of perfect realization and enlightenment sees through their eye of wisdom the entire universe in their own self and regards everything else as their own self and nothing else.

Nothing whatsoever exists other than the Atman.

The tangible universe is verily Atman as pots and jars are verily made of clay and cannot be said to be anything but clay.

So too, to the enlightened soul,

All that is perceived is the self.

A liberated one, endowed with self-knowledge,

gives up the traits of their previously explained equipments, and because of their nature of Sat Chit Ananda, they verily become Brahman.

After crossing the ocean of delusion and killing the monsters of likes and dislikes, the yogi who is united with peace dwells in the glory of their own realized self.

The self-abiding Jivan Mukta, relinquishing all their attachments to the illusory external happiness and satisfied with the bliss derived from the Atman, shines inwardly like a lamp placed inside a jar.