Youth

Now let me tell you something that will agree with your mood. According to the Vedanta, one has to know the real nature of one’s own Self. But such knowledge is impossible without the renunciation of ego. The ego is like a stick that seems to divide the water in two. It makes you feel that you are one and I am another. When the ego disappears in samadhi, then one knows Brahman to be one’s own inner consciousness. One must renounce the ‘ I ’ that makes one feel, ‘ I am Mahima Chakravarty ‘ I am a learned man and so on. But the ‘ ego of Knowledge’ does not injure one.

Sri Ramakrishna