You Are Indeed The Supreme Self

“You are indeed the supreme Self, but due to your association with ignorance, you find yourself under the bondage of the not-self, which is the sole cause of the cycle of births and deaths. All the effects of ignorance, root and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.”

~ Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, Vivekacuddāmani, Verse 47