From Yoga Vasistha

A Child superimposes a real elephant on a clay elephant and plays with it; similarly an ignorant man superimposes the body, mind and intellect conglomerate on the self and carries on his activities. Like the organs of the body or vessels of clay, non-duality appears as duality/ multiplicity in the form of moving and unmoving objects. Just as a single face is reflected as many in the mirror, crystal, and water simultaneously; so also the one self is reflected in the many intellects or minds. When water and fire come together they acquire the qualities of each other. Similarly when the self and the inert body come together, the self looks like the non-self and the non-self looks like the self. The self, is realized in the body only with effort like sugar from sugarcane, fire from wood and iron from ore. It can only be experienced, not known. There is neither bondage nor liberation, neither duality nor non-duality. There is only God always shining as consciousness. Awareness is God. The “idea” of a consciousness is bondage, freedom from it is liberation. Consciousness is the self. There is only consciousness here; this universe is nothing but consciousness; you are consciousness; I am consciousness; the worlds are consciousness- that is the conclusion.