In plain words
God is like the sugar in a sweet drink, like the butter in milk.
From ancient times many ṛṣis, in search of Satya, gave up all wealth, went to the forest, did tapas and came to recognise the true form of Satya. Another meaning is that ‘Sat’ means ‘that which is eternal’. This ‘Sat’ does not change. That itself is the form of Brahman. This itself is fundamental life. The form that is the basis of everything is this ‘Sat’ itself. If this ‘Sat’ were not there at all, there could be no power of consciousness called ‘Cit’. This ‘Sat’ is a great, powerful force. This itself has been called positive. ‘Cit’ takes refuge in it and, resting on it, carries out the actions of duty. This is negative. When Sat joins with Cit, Ānanda arises. ‘Sat’ is the divine principle, like sweet sugar. ‘Cit’ is like the water that quenches man's thirst. If we add the sugar called ‘Sat’ to this water called ‘Cit’, a sweet drink is made. When we drink the sweet drink in which both ‘Sat’ and ‘Cit’ have come together, Ānanda arises. We do not call water a sweet drink. We do not call sugar a sweet drink. Only when sugar and water have both come together do we say ‘sweet drink’. So in what form is God? He is like the sugar in the sweet drink. Without this sugar there can be no sweet drink. Leave out the sugar, and there can be no sweet drink. So, like butter in milk, like ghee in butter, all these are bound together in an inseparable relation. From time without beginning the ṛṣis did endless tapas, recognised these things called ‘Sat’ and ‘Cit’, and tried to give them to the world.
The eye of Jñāna alone makes the inner form visible
Once, while assemblies on the Veda were being held, they discussed this matter in them. In this way they made efforts of many kinds to search out ‘Sat’, ‘Cit’ and Ānanda. However much tapas they did, however strong the vows they took, none of them could recognise this form of ‘Sat’. Just then a maharṣi called ‘Satyasvarūpa’ came and proclaimed, “Vedāham etaṃ puruṣaṃ mahāntam ādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt.”