In plain words
The divine principle cannot be described as this or that. It is in everything like the sugar in a sweet drink. Then how is it? ‘Tamas’ means darkness: it is like the light of the sun beyond the darkness. In it is the radiance of the sun as well. This is how God is. “God is He who is joined with the light of the sun”: “ādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt”. But then, a question: ‘Where did you see this?’ Did you see it by day? Or did you see it at night? Did you see it in meditation? Did you see it while awake? Did you see it in the turīya state? So many questions arose. For God there is no triad of states, no triad of times, no triad of places. Then that Satyasvarūpa: “This has no distinctions of time. It has no distinctions of age. Forms do not come to it at all. For it no difference of day and night is seen at all. In such a state I saw this Satya,” he answered. “How did you see this Satya? Did you see it in the state of meditation? Did you see it in the waking state?” In answer to this question the maharṣi: “O ṛṣis! The physical eyes belong to the waking state. With the physical eyes we see a great many things. These physical eyes belong not only to human beings; beasts, birds and wild animals have them too. Worms and insects too have these physical eyes. In the world people see with the physical eyes. Seeing is no great thing. These physical eyes can see only the physical form. But only that which brings out the inner form within it is the true eye. That itself is the eye of Jñāna. With this eye of Jñāna you can see wherever you like, whenever you like. It is not caught by the influence of place, time and circumstance. Whenever you like, “always, at all times, everywhere”, you can see. At any time at all, just once, contemplate the radiant form that is in the heart. He will become visible to you,” he said. The moment the ṛṣis contemplated in this way, Satyasvarūpa placed his thumb between their eyebrows. At once, without their knowing it, the great saying “Vedāham etaṃ puruṣaṃ mahāntam ādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt” came forth from their mouths. Those ṛṣis too, just as Satyasvarūpa had seen, were able to see God shining with the radiance of a crore of suns, beyond the darkness. They overflowed with Ānanda.