How do you know what Sugmad (God) looks like?

—Vanessa, at age 8,
Florida

Dear Vanessa,

Someone once thanked me for all the spiritual gifts that had come to him. I said, “You’re welcome!”

But I went on.

“I say you’re welcome because you know where they really come from . . .” And then I broke off. Instead, I waved my arms in a big circle, to say the gifts really come from the ECK, the Voice of God, the inner part of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master.

Of course, you know that the ECK is simply the Voice of God, not the Sugmad ITSELF. The ECK reveals Itself through the Light and Sound.

Nothing at all can describe the Sugmad, though.

The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad says IT “is what there is. . . . It is neither old nor new, great nor small, shaped nor shapeless.”

That said, the Sugmad also has two parts, an inside and an outside.

Nothing can speak of the inside part. But the outer part is what one can know and remember after God-Realization.

So that is what I know about Sugmad.

Thank you for this question.

(from October 2009 Letter of Light)