The Ashtavakra Gita:
Chapter #4:
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(Note: From now on, Janak is speaking, as he just realized the infinite just by listening to Ashtavakra)
Janak said: "Amazing! I am pure, flawless, I am peace, I am awareness, I am beyond nature. Alas, I have been fooled by illusion all this time!
Just as I allone illumine this body, do I illumine the universe too. Either this whole universe is mine, or nothing at all.
Amazing! Having renounced the body and the world, now through the skill of your teaching I see only the divine.
Just as waves, foam and bubbles are not other than water, so this individual soul is not other than the universal soul.
Just as cloth when analyzed is nothing but thread, this universe when analyzed is nothing but the soul.
Just as sugar produced from sugarcane juice is wholly pervaded by it, the universe produced from me is permeated by me through and through.
From the ignorance of the soul this world then appears; from knowing the soul it does not appear. From the ignorance of the rope a snake appears; from knowing the rope it does not appear."
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