Ashtavakra-Gita

2.7
Not seeing Self, the world is materialized.
Seeing Self, the world is vanished.
A rope is not a snake,
but can appear to be.
2.8
I am not other than Light.
The universe manifests
at my glance.
2.9
The mirage of universe appears in me
as silver appears in mother-of-pearl,
as a snake appears in a rope,
as water appears on a desert horizon.
2.10
As a pot returns to clay,
a wave to water,
a bracelet to gold,
so will the universe return to Me.
2.11
I am wonderful indeed--
beyond adoration.
I cannot decay nor ever die,
though God and all the universe
should perish to the last blade of grass.
2.12
I am wonderful indeed--
beyond adoration.
Even with a body I am One.
I neither come nor go.
I am everywhere at once.
2.13
I am wonderful indeed--
beyond adoration.
I am astounded at my powers.
The universe appears within me
but I do not touch it.