"As a lump of salt thrown into water melts away . . . even so, 0 Maitreyi, the individual soul, dissolved, is the Eternal - pure consciousness, infinite, transcendent. Individuality arises by the identification of the Self, through ignorance, with the elements; and with the disappearance of consciousness of the many, in divine illumination, it disappears."

From the Brihadaranayaka Upanishad