The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c6.s6.t3.3

c6.s6.t3.3

“Prajâpati said: The Self, the sinless, free from old age, free from death, and free from sorrow, without hunger and without thirst, whose wishes are true, whose resolve is true, this Self is to be investigated, this you should seek to know. He wins all worlds and all wishes, who has found this Self and knows it!”—In order to gain knowledge of the Self, the gods send Indra, the Asuras (Demons), Virocana, to Prajâpati. —The three successive answers, which Prajâpati gives to the question, what the Self is, represent three stages of knowledge, in virtue of which the Self is seen either in the body, or in the individual soul, or in the highest soul. The first answer to the question: “What is the Self?” runs thus: “The Self in the body (literally, the person, *puruṣa*), as it is represented in the reflection in the eye, in water, in a mirror.”—Whoever, like Virocana and the Asuras, is satisfied with this view,