Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?