God is the formless essence of everything. He has brought the world out of Himself and built the roads of mind and senses to experience the world. Similarly He has brought out speech and limbs to act upon the world. Thus out of the original formless came the Being of God with an omniscient Divine Mind and Divine Senses and omnipotent Divine limbs and Divine Speech and an All loving all blissful Heart.
This Vision of God is revealed for the first time in the Bhagwadgita. It is in His miniature image that we have been made with senses, limbs, speech. But then just as the person can see oneself in the mirror but the image in the mirror cannot see the person as it is not conscious, even though it resembles the person in some way, so too we cannot see God until all our senses, mind and heart become conscious with His Consciousness and Power.
Our present senses are not developed enough to be able to perceive God. Our mind and heart will burst and dissolve if God’s Knowledge and Power were to dawn upon them just as a salt doll will melt if it bathes in the sea. Therefore in our present state we can at best feel something of God’s Presence, or glimpse passingly some lesser aspect of Him or the other such as the gods and goddesses or else understand something of His workings through the life of seers and sages and yogis, vibhutis and Avatars that engage in intense tapasya to see God and hold His Consciousness within them. The body of these Masters acts as a filter for us to receive God’s touch in a gentler and milder way.
Finally we can perceive something of God’s Glory filtered through the manifestation or the creation. We can feel His Beauty in the flower, we can experience something of His greatness and strength in the mountains, His Power in the galaxies, His Light in the sun and the stars, His soothing touch in the breeze, His Sweetness in the moon, His vastness in the ocean, His love in the heart of a mother, His strength in the warrior. In other words this material creation is itself the gross physical body of God. But to see Him in His essence is only possible if we go beyond the limitations of our physical senses and develop the eyes and ears of the soul.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
