Truth is God. The Upanishads declare : "Raso vai Saha" (God is all sweetness). This means that God is present in subtle form everywhere, like sugar in sugarcane and butter in milk. Although it is difficult to have a direct perception of God, His presence can be experienced in many ways. The sweetness in sugar, the sourness in lime fruit, the bitterness of the margosa leaf, all testify to the presence of the Divine. When you see a mountain or a waterfall or a forest, you feel happy. All these proclaim the presence of the Divine. Light shines, the stars twinkle, the sun blazes, the planets revolve in their orbits. All these phenomena are manifestations of the Divine. By understanding the nature of a flame, you can understand the nature of fire. By examining a drop of water, you can know the nature of the Ganges. Likewise, by understanding the true nature of humanness, you can understand Divinity.
Despite all the activities in which man is engaged from dawn to dusk, he has no understanding of his true nature. He identifies himself with the body, the senses and the mind, forgetting that his true self is beyond all these. They are only instruments. Vedanta calls man to know himself. The insigniaby which a man is identified in ordinary life are not the indicators of one's true self. There are two entities in a man : the body and the indwelling Spirit. To know the Spirit is to know one's true self.
(Sanathana Sarathi, December 1995, pg 281)
