Swami Prakashanand Saraswati explains that while God’s abstract energy exists, it becomes meaningful only when experienced in a perceivable form. Just as electricity is invisible but proves its existence through its effects, God’s divine form allows devotees to experience His beauty and love.
According to Swami Prakashanand Saraswati:
Abstract or formless things exist but they are simply energy or energies. They cannot be associated with, experienced, or perceived. But because they do exist, they also exist in a perceivable form. So, the abstract existence is proved from the perceivable substance. This is an axiom. From a perceived object, its abstract existence is proved.
Electric power proved electricity exists. With the perceived experience we know that energy exists as abstract. So, the abstract form of God is proved with the Personified Form of God. Whenever one has experienced or perceived the beauty of God, the love of God, the form of God, the charm of God, he says, “Oh yes, this is Godhead Personality, but I didn’t realize Him before.” He existed before but in an energy form.
You are shivering because it’s snowing outside, and your heater has gone off. But electricity is around you; why can’t you use it? Why are you shivering? Because something has gone wrong with the wiring or connections. When electricity is evolved into an experiential form, then that has use, otherwise, it is of no use.
Similarly, when the power or energy of God appears in a perceivable form, that form of Godhead Personality is beautiful, charming, and loving to an unlimited limit – that is why we call Him Godhead Personality.
He has a personality but not like yours. You have a material personality; God has a Divine personality. You have a material brain and mind; He has a Divine mind. You have a body of flesh and bones; He has a body, but not like your body of flesh and bones. How? Before you experience Him, this is beyond understanding. After you experience Him, then everything becomes understandable, because you understand God with the mind of God. You see His form with the eyes of God. You embrace God with the body of God. This theory has been explained in one single verse in the Gita.
नतुमांशक्यसेद्रष्टुमनेनैवस्वचक्षुषा।
दिव्यंददामितेचक्षुःपश्यमेयोगमैश्वरम्॥
Arjun said, “Krishn, I want to see You.” Krishn said, “See Me. I’m standing in front of you.” Arjun said, “But I can’t see You in Your Divine Beauty.” Krishn said, “You cannot see Me, because with physical eyes you see physical things. With My eyes, you can see Me.”
The word dadami means, “I give it to you.” Krishn gave His vision. He put His vision into the eyes of Arjun, and with that vision Arjun saw Krishn. So, with Krishn’s eyes, one can see Krishn. With Krishn’s body, one can embrace and love Krishn. With Krishn’s ears, one can hear Krishn’s flute. With Krishn’s nose, one can smell His perfume. This is called the Grace of Krishn.
When Krishn Graces, He imparts His power into the heart, mind, and soul of a devotee, and then that devotee receives the same power which Krishn has. So with that received power, he perceives Krishn. The material power is finished, and he has only Divine power.
Conclusion: True realization of God comes not through material senses but through His divine grace. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati highlights how Krishn bestows His vision upon devotees, enabling them to see, hear, and embrace Him with divine perception, leading to ultimate spiritual fulfillment.