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The Same Self in All
Why do we love to gaze on the blue canopy of the summer sky, the many-coloured flowers of the spring, the beautiful faces of innocent children? Why do we love to listen to the symphony of the orchestra, the music of the mountain wind playing with the pine trees, the mighty voice of lonely waterfalls? Why does injustice done to a primitive folk in some distant corner of the earth rouse us to indignation and nerve our arm to repair it? Why?—Because the same Self which is in the colour of the sky and the sea, in the odour of flowers and in the rhythm of poetry, is also in our hearts. There are many things, many forms, many names—but one Life. Verily all this is Brahman.
Swami Ananda Acharya, Brahmadarsanam: Intuition of the Absolute, Being an Introduction to the Study of Hindu Philosophy (London: Macmillan & Co., 1917), pp. 135-136