When the essential nature of Bhairava is recognized as our inmost self, the distinction between the worshipper and the worshipped disappears and dawns a sense of non-dualism.
(p. 16, commentary on verse 16)
He who thus knows Bhairava both internally and externally is fully convinced of the fact that there is nothing else than Bhairava. He is a God-intoxicated person. To him, Bhairava is an ever-present Reality. He is identified with Bhairava and thus enjoys the non-dual state perpetually.
(p. 112, commentary on verse 124, dharana 99)
Resting of all objective experience within the Self is what is meant by I-feeling. This resting (within the self) is called autonomy of Will, primordial doership and universal sovereignty because of the cancellation of all relational consciousness, and of dependence on anything outside oneself.
(p. 133, commentary on verse 145)
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