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He who seeks God with absolute sincerity is sure to comprehend
God. This is why no one ever arrives at the actual answer to this question. 'Kandavar Vindilai; Vindavar kandilai'. 'Those who have seen, have not explained. Those who attempt to explain, have not seen'. Why have those who have seen, unable to explain? They have only been able to experience that bliss of Divinity; it is not possible to express It in words.
How will you ever make a person understand what an apple looks like, till he has seen it for himself? Even in the worldly sense, you are able to understand an object's appearance based on experience only. God is an inexplicable being and we do not have any prior knowledge of Him. That is why we do not understand His Presence. We discern an unknown being only through a known object. And none of those who have known Him was in a position to express his or her experience. Secondly God is not an object. It is neither an object nor a subject. It is an experience of subjectivity. We can become God; if we say we have seen God, we are uttering lies. This is because God is not outside. He is within everyone; He is everything on Earth.
When you concentrate on God with total dedication, you become that Lord
Himself. It can be any form of God that you concentrate on. And you can only comprehend this by experience; you can never describe Him. Arunagirinatha says, 'That Eternal Bliss swallowed me and what remained was only that Bliss and nothing else', 'I realized that Muruga and I are one'. 'ettaadha Perinbam ennai vizhungi ninradhuve; Thaanaaga thani Ninradhu Tharparame.'
You manufacture a device made of salt and engage a person to fathom the depths of an ocean using that contraption. How long will the salt device remain in one piece? It gets dissolved in the salty waters of the ocean. Nothing remains to explain to you the process.
Similarly, those who set out to fathom the Paramathma Sagara, the Ocean of Bliss called God, were absorbed into the
Divine. They were unable to express that experience, because, from then onward, they were not themselves, they were
HIM.
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