Ashtavakra Gita

Just as a dancer, done with the dance, quietly removes their costume, the enlightened one lays aside every role without loss

The metaphor suggests enlightenment isn't the addition of some special state but simply the quiet setting-down of identities that were always a performance.

Ashtavakra reaches for an image from the stage: an actor who has finished a role does not grieve the character's disappearance, they simply take off the costume, because they never confused themselves with the part they were playing. In the same way, the eighteenth chapter says, the enlightened person can be a father, a king, a beggar, or a scholar without any of those roles touching what they actually are. Nothing is lost when the role ends, because nothing real was ever invested in the role to begin with. This image gives concrete shape to the chapter's larger claim that liberation changes nothing about a person's outer life while changing everything about their relationship to it.

Ashtavakra Gita