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

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

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

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