The "Song of the Free", a classic text of Advaita Vedanta expresses the highest experience of the unfettered Self. Sanskrit text, transliteration and English translation. One of the purest statements of the supreme knowledge of Advaita, by a sage who lived over three thousand years ago.
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.
-Swami Vivekananda