Bhagavatapurana 9.7.27

9.7.27

hitvā tāṃ svena bhāvena nirvāṇasukhasaṃvidā /
anirdeśyāpratarkyeṇa tasthau vidhvastabandhanaḥ //

26 & 27. The king resolved his mind into Prithivi (earth), Prithivi into water and water into Agni and Agni into Anila (air) and the air into the sky and the sky into Ahankara (the course of the Bhutas) and Ahankara into the Mahattatva and contemplated in Mahattatva the intellectual aspect to be Atman, to the exclusion of its objective form; and by this contemplation he burnt down nescience and having shunned that aspect also, he stood free from bondage and in his own essential nature of absolute bliss and consciousness beyond the range of description and inference.