The whole universe is mine!

Alas !

How much painful labour
I have done in the pursuit of pleasure

Body, friend, land, wealth, and wife
All have been lost to me, life after life

Like snake in a rope
It all appeared real to me due to my own ignorance and hope

When eyes opened
Broken chain

In boundless ocean of bliss, I remain

As wave in water, cloth in thread
All creation is only the self

In joy and sorrow, dream and despair, life and death
I am one and the same in the nectar of faith

Free from confusion
It is an unceasing meditation, beyond all variance and illusion

I am in all, all are in me !

There is

nothing to accept
nothing to reject
nothing to embrace
nothing to renounce

The whole universe is mine !

― The wisdom of Ashtavakra