"If you begin to be what you are, you will realise everything, but to begin to be what you are, you must first come out of what you are not. You are not those thoughts which are turning, turning in your mind. You are not those changing feelings. You are not the different decisions you make and the different wills you have. You are not that separate ego. Well then, what are you? You will find that when you have come out of what you are not, that the ripple on the water is whispering to you “I am That”, that the birds in the trees are singing to you “I am That”, the moon and the stars are shining beacons to you “I am That”. You are in everything in the world and everything in the world is reflected in you. And at the same time you are That—everything."
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Shantananda Saraswati
1913 – 1997
Shantananda Saraswati (16th July 1913 - 1997) Indian spiritual teacher, Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math monastery from 1953 to 1980, he was a disciple of Brahmananda Saraswati and succeeded him as Shankaracharya.
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