"Thou Before Whom All Words Recoil"
As humans we developed a coping method to think of things in words but words cannot come close to describing who god is or what he is. As it was stated "God's nature resembles our words about as much as the dog star represents a dog" (Smith 61). But the words we have a can be sen as a pointer to show us the direction. Few people have the ability to accept god as a formless thing and theses people have minds that are not inferior, just different. India has accepted that people view God in whichever way works best for them ut note that god is anything, everything, and nothing we can describe. Hinduism has many deities and this is because they do not know what god is so they give him/her/it a personified manifestation with symbolic stories.
"The Atman is beyond sound and form, without touch and taste and perfume. It is eternal, unchangeable, without beginning or end: indeed above reasoning." (Novak 13)
"The Atman is beyond sound and form, without touch and taste and perfume. It is eternal, unchangeable, without beginning or end: indeed above reasoning." (Novak 13)