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As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them.

Anandamayi Ma

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Anandamayi Ma
Age: 86 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 30
Died: 1982
Died: August 27
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Insects
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Animal
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