Mandukya Karika, verse 3.32

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आत्मसत्यानुबोधेन न संकल्पयते यदा ।
अमनस्तां तदा याति ग्राह्याभावे तदग्रहम् ॥ ३२ ॥

ātmasatyānubodhena na saṃkalpayate yadā |
amanastāṃ tadā yāti grāhyābhāve tadagraham || 32 ||

32. When the mind does not imagine on account of the knowledge of the Truth which is Ātman, then it ceases to be mind and becomes free from all idea of cognition, for want of objects to be cognised.

Shankara Bhashya (commentary)

How does the mind become naught? It is thus replied:—The Ātman alone is the Reality like1 the clay; as in the Śruti passage, “All modifications are mere names arising from efforts of speech. The clay alone is real.” That knowledge of the reality of Ātman comes through the Scripture2 and the teacher. The mind having attained to that knowledge does not imagine, as3 there remains nothing to be imagined. The mind then is like fire when there is no fuel to burn. When the mind thus does no longer imagine, it ceases to be mind, that is, the mind, for want of any object to be cognised, becomes free from all cognition.