The Brahma-saṁhitā says that devotees whose eyes are anointed with the love of God ointment, such persons, within his heart, seeing God, Kṛṣṇa, always, twenty-four hours. Not that . . . so you require to purify your senses. Then you'll be able to understand what is the form of God, what is the name of God, what is the quality of God, what is the paraphernalia of God. God has everything.
That these things are discussed in Vedic literature. Just like apāni-pādo javana-gṛhīta. It is said that God has no hands or legs, but He can accept anything you offer. God has no eyes and ears, but He can see everything and He can hear everything. So these are contradiction. That means whenever we speak of seeing, we think somebody must have eyes like this. That is our material conception.
God has eyes. He can see even in the darkness. You cannot see in the darkness. So He has got a different eye. God can hear. If you are . . . God is in His kingdom, which is millions and millions of miles away, but if you are talking something, whispering, conspiracy, He can hear. Because He is sitting within you.
So you cannot avoid God's seeing and God's hearing or God's touching. Just like in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said:
- patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ
- yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
- tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam
- aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
- (BG 9.26)
"If somebody offers Me flower, fruits, vegetables, milk with devotional love, I accept and eat." Now how He's eating, that you cannot see in the present—but He is eating. That we are experiencing daily. We are offering Kṛṣṇa, according to the ritualistic process, and you see the taste of the food is changed immediately. That is practical.
He eats, but because He is full, He does not eat like us. Just like if I give you a plate of foodstuff, you finish. But God is not hungry, but He eats. He eats and keeps the things as it is. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate (Īśo Invocation).
God is so full, that He can take all the foodstuff that you offer; still it remains as it is. He can eat with His eyes. That is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā: aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti (Bs. 5.32).
Every part of the limb of the body of God has got all the potencies of other limb. Just like you can see with your eyes, but you cannot eat with your eyes. But God, if He simply sees the foodstuff you have offered, that is His eating.
So these things cannot be understood at the present moment. Therefore this Padma Purāṇa says that only when one becomes spiritually saturated by the transcendental service to the Lord, then are the transcendental name, form, quality and pastimes of the Lord revealed to you. You cannot understand by your own endeavor, but God reveals to you.