Continuous attention to the Self (verses 384-397) :

384. By fixing the purified inner-organ upon the Self, which is the Witness and Knowledge Absolute and gradually making it quiet, one should behold the state of fullness of one‘s own Self. 

385. Free from all limitations like the body, sense-organs, pranas, mind and ego which are projections of one‘s ignorance, let one come to realise the Self (Atman), the Indivisible and Infinite, like the great all-pervading space. 

386.Having dropped hundreds of its limitations such as a pot, a pitcher, a barn or the eye of a needle, space is recognized as one and not as many. So too, the Pure Supreme (Brahman) is indeed one, when freed from the ego and the rest. 

387. Right from Brahma down to a blade of grass, all conditioning adjuncts (upadhis) are quite unreal. Therefore, one should realise one‘s own Self as one and only existent Principle. 

388. Where by mistake, something is imagined to exist, there, on right discrimination, the Real itself is recognised---there being nothing other than it. With the error removed, the falsely perceived snake vanishes and the rope appears as the truth. So too, the entire universe is, in truth, only the Self. 

389. The Self is Brahma, the Self is Visnu, the Self is Indra, the Self is Siva--the Self is this entire universe. Indeed, nothing exists apart from the Self. 

390. The Self is within, the Self is without; the Self is in front, the Self is behind; the Self is to the south, the Self is to the north; so too It is above and below. 

391. Just as the wave, the surf, the whirlpool, the bubbles etc., are all in essence nothing but water, so too, Consciousness alone is everything from the body etc., to the ego. Truly, everything is the homogenous, pure Consciousness only. 

392. The entire universe known through speech and mind is nothing but Brahman. There is nothing but Brahman, which exists even beyond the pale of Prakrti. Can the pitcher, jug, pot, etc., ever be anything other than the clay of which they are made? Drunk with the wine of illusion (Maya), the deluded person talks of 'you‘ and 'me‘. 

393. With many predicates, Sruti declares the absence of duality with the phrase, 'where there is nothing else' etc., in order to remove all false superimpositions. 

394. Like the sky, the supreme Brahman is untainted absolute, limitless, motionless and without modifications; It has neither inside nor an outside; It is One Existence and Non-dual and is one‘s own Self. Is there any other thing to be known? 

395. What is the use of enlarging upon this subject? The individual is nothing but the Brahman only; the whole expanse of this universe is nothing but Brahman only. Sruti points out Brahman as being non-dual; and it is an undeniable fact that those who are enlightened, who have established their identity with Brahman and who have given up their associations with the outside world, live ever in union with Brahman, Eternal Knowledge and Bliss.

396. First give up the desires generated by the sense of 'I' in the physical body, a bundle of filth; then, with great persistence, do the same with the subtle body. Realizing Brahman—the personification of eternal Bliss--which the scriptures eulogize as your own Self, live as Brahman.  

397. As long as one worships one‘s corpse-like body, one is impure and suffers from ‗others‘ and from birth, death and disease. But when one thinks of oneself as the Pure, the Auspicious, the Immovable, certainly one becomes free from them—the Srutis also testify to this.