This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
Swami VivekanandaThe Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.
Swami Vivekananda