Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 386

देहेन्द्रियप्राणमनोऽहमादिभिः

स्वाज्ञानकॢप्तैरखिलैरुपाधिभिः ।

विमुक्तमात्मानमखण्डरूपं

पूर्णं महाकाशमिवावलोकयेत् ॥

dehendriyaprāṇamano'hamādibhiḥ

svājñānakḷptairakhilairupādhibhiḥ |

vimuktamātmānamakhaṇḍarūpaṃ

pūrṇaṃ mahākāśamivāvalokayet ||

(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 386)

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

One who realizes this eternal atma within himself—that is, one who recognizes himself to be the eternal consciousness or soul within the body—becomes a perfectly self-realized person. There are innumerable atmas, all, in essence, the same yet each eternally distinct. And above all these atmas is the Paramatma, or supreme atma—God. God, too, is distinct from all other living beings, and this distinction is eternal. God, the supreme infinite, is the complete spiritual whole, and all other living beings are infinitesimal parts of God. A living being can never "become God" any more than a drop of water can become the entire ocean.