Chapter-7, Verse 3

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 7.3

मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ विश्वं नाम विकल्पना। अतिशान्तो निराकार एतदेवाहमास्थितः॥३॥

3. In Me, the shoreless ocean, is the imagined illusion of the universe. I am the profoundly tranquil and formless. In this Knowledge alone, I abide. 

In the previous verse we have the metaphor of the ocean and the waves, which might probably give a hasty student a suspicion that the world of names and forms is a modification, temporary though it be, of the Infinite Self. To contradict this false notion this verse is employed. The world of names and forms is only the imagination (vikalpanā) of the total mind. It has no existence whatsoever. The Self is undisturbed, profoundly peaceful and ever formless. 

Earlier in the opening chapter it was said: साकारमनृतं विद्धि निराकारं तु निश्चलम्। एतत्तत्त्वोपदेशेन न पुनर्भवसम्भवः॥१८॥ Know that which has form to be false and the formless to be changeless. Through this spiritual instruction you shall escape the possibility of rebirth.