Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 58

Sutra 51. Anirvachaneeyam Premaswarupam.

[The nature of love towards God is inexpressible in words.]

Anirvachaneeyam: (is) incapable of being described precisely, not capable of being expressed in words.

Premaswarupam : the nature of love.

Sutra 52. Mookaaswaadanavat.

[Just as the taste of a dumb-man.]

Mooka-aswaadanavat : Like the taste of a dumb-man, like the dumb-man’s experience of a tasty thing.

The intrinsic nature of divine love defies precise definition or description. Bhakti or divine love is a realization so profound that it is not possible to describe it adequately and exactly.

Love is a feeling felt within the heart. When one is underneath the water he cannot speak. Similarly when one is drowned in the ocean of divine love, he is unable to speak.

  

If a dumb person is given a sweet and he is asked to eat it and then describe how it was, what would he explain?? He may at best make some sounds and some gesture which will never be able to explain his experience of the real experience when the sweet went inside him. 

In a commentary on the experience of SELF, chinmayananda pens a line in his vivekachudamani book thus:-

"When I reach there, I do not exist, when I come back, I cannot express".

When I reach there - When one transcends the "I" , the smaller I, his body, mind and intellect, his vasanas, his ego and reaches / experiences the bigger "I" or the true experience of God's Love (in devotion) or the Pure  SELF / ATMAN (in the path of Jnana),

I do not exist- Already explained above, the smaller "I", the identity of oneself as this jiva is not there at all, while one experiences the love for God / SELF.

Therefore, 

When I come back (or come down to this world with my mind active) - When I come down to this world, when I am back with my identity as this limited Jiva with this limited / perishable body, mind, intellect in this perishable world,

I cannot express - What the real I or the bigger I or my inner SELF experienced after transcending the smaller I or this limited identity of Jiva, that experience, how can I express with this limited identity, when, upon reaching THERE, this limited I or this jiva was not present there at all?????

In the above explanation, the bigger I is the Aham (Aham Brahmasmi) whereas the smaller I is Ahankar (the ego).

Possibly, no other expression can actually express the impossibility of expressing the inner experience of one's Love for God / One's glimpse of SELF within.

The inner experience of and as the very nature of Love, can never be expressed by the limited existence as a human being with limited mind with limited words out of the limited dictionary of any limited language!!!

It is like the one who has traveled to moon, upon returning to his city, tries to put in his experience while being at the moon through words, fumbles, lacks expression and then ultimately says, "No way that I can actually express my experience when I was actually at the moon. For knowing what it is to be at moon, you yourself have to reach there and experience, no one can give the experience through limited expressions on the earth".

Again, the author can go on and on, but all his expressions again would be limited, when it comes to actual experience of God's Love.

When a blessed devotee walks out of the interview room after being with Swami for some time, it is a sight to be seen, where, all other devotees in the hall embrace him, try to gather a small portion of vibhuthi from his hands which Swami would have given him, touch his hands as they might have come into contact with Swami's lotus feet, when the vibhuti in his hand is almost finished, even shamelessly lick his hand to take in the last piece of vibhuti left over in his hands, load him with a volley of questions on his experience inside  the interview room with the Lord of Lords.

It is not 99% but 100% of the times that all the devotees who get the interview (or the inner view) experience, when they come out, they can at best stay in the ecstasy (of Mira upon finding Krishna within). 

Such a  devotee just is able to barely see other devotees who are surrounding him, he is just unable to speak a word even and all that can be seen are those tears of ecstasy (tears that stand as a testimony of his experiencing the Lord's love) rolling down his cheeks and he quietly rushes to his west Prashanti room, preferring to be left alone to cherish what he got a few minutes before, for which even the Rishis in the Himalayas have been meditating and waiting for decades or even centuries!!!

What more can be said with limited words, on the experience of God / His Love??

Love.