The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Svātmaprakāśikā

Verse 55

कालत्रये यथा सर्पो रज्जौ नास्ति तथा मयि ।अहंकारादि देहान्तं जगन्नास्त्यहमद्वयः ॥ ५२ ॥

In plain words

The snake is not in the rope — not in the past, not now, not ever after. It is the same with me: this whole world, from the first stir of 'I' out to this body, is not in me at all. I am one, without a second.

Close to the Sanskrit

Just as, in the three times, a snake does not exist in the rope, so it is in me: the world, beginning with the ego-sense and ending with the body, does not exist; I am non-dual.