Unlike the unreal, That -- you must understand -- does not vanish; That, the Brahman, the 'Sat', the Real, by which all this world is pervaded, just as pots and other objects are pervaded by the akasa or space. Brahman does not undergo increase or diminution and is therefore inexhaustible. This Brahman is not exhausted in Itself; for, unlike the body, It has no parts. Nor does It diminish by loss of anything belonging to It; for nothing belongs to the Self. Wherefore, nobody can bring about the disappearance or destruction of the inexhaustible Brahman. Nobody -- not even the Isvara, the Supreme Lord -- can destroy the Self. For, the Self is Brahman Itself and one cannot act upon oneself.

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain

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