Markandeyapurana 38.7

38.7

matpraśnādeva te jñānamutpannamidamuttamam /
mameti pratyayo yena kṣiptaḥ śālmalitūlavat //

Dattātreya spoke:
“It is even so, O tiger-hero! as thou hast just declared. The thought ‘it is mine’ is the root of pain; and the thought ‘it is naught of mine’ is the root of calmness. From my question indeed has this sublime knowledge sprung up in thee, who hast cast off the conviction ‘It is mine’, as if it were the cotton of the seemul tree.”[2]