From Atma Bodh

I am limitless, nondual, pure awareness.

Because I am other than the body

I don’t suffer its changes.

I am not born, nor do I die.

I have no sense organs, so I am not involved in the world.

Because I am other than the mind

I am free of sorrow, attachment, malice and fear.

Scripture says I am pure,

without thought or desire, and so I am.

I have no attributes.

I live without breathing.

I am eternal, formless and ever free.

I am the same in all,

and fill all things with being.

I am limitless, nondual, pure awareness.


Atma Bodh is a Vedantic text written in the 8th century by the sage Adi Shankara. Vedanta is the ancient science of self-inquiry.