Ashtavakra Gita

The world will exist as long as the mind exists; when the mind is truly quiet, the world too subsides

Claims that the perceived world is mind-dependent, so that a genuinely quiet mind experiences the world's dissolution, not merely its own calm.

This is one of the more radical epistemological claims in chapter 13: rather than saying a quiet mind perceives the world differently, it says the world itself — as a felt, effortful presence pressing on attention — subsides along with mental activity. This tracks a broader Vedantic idea that the world as ordinarily experienced is inseparable from the mind that constructs and maintains it moment to moment, rather than a fixed backdrop the mind merely observes. It is not a claim that physical objects vanish, but that the world's grip, its capacity to generate craving and aversion, is entirely a function of mental activity and disappears when that activity does. The line invites the reader to test the claim directly, by noticing what happens to "the world" in moments the mind actually does go quiet.

Ashtavakra Gita