The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Ātmabodhaḥ

Verse 10

सच्चिदात्मन्यनुस्यूते नित्ये विष्णौ प्रकल्पिताः ।व्यक्तयो विविधाः सर्वा हाटके कटकादिवत् ॥ ९ ॥

In plain words

Bangles, rings, chains — every shape is nothing but the gold. In just that way, all the countless forms that appear are imagined in the Ātman: being, awareness, running unbroken through everything, eternal, Viṣṇu who pervades it all.

Close to the Sanskrit

In the Self that is being and consciousness, threaded through all, eternal, in Viṣṇu, are imagined all the manifold manifestations — as bracelets and the like are in gold.