Hence, the object of spiritual experience, as the Gita tells us, ” is neither cut by weapons, nor burnt by fire; it is neither moistened by water, nor dried up by wind” (2.23). And, hence also, we can say that he alone who has got this experience can be said to be a realized soul. Similarly, we can say about both the object and the experience about it that they present the contradictions which are equally true. The spiritual object thus goes beyond both the formal Logic and the Hegelian dialectic. It is experienced as possessing all the organs of knowledge and actions, as also devoid of them all; as being both saguna and nirguna; as identically the same inside and outside; as movable and immovable; as far off and near at hand, at the same time; as indivisible though appearing as divided. It is seen as smaller than the smallest and larger than the largest; as the most lustrous and yet on occasions the blackest of all; as consisting of innumerable hands, or of feet or of eyes, or without any hand or foot or eye (13.13-17); as having neither beginning, nor middle nor end; that is, as causing bewilderment whether it is the head or the feet or the middle portion of the body; as both attractive and fearful at the same time (11.19,45); as identically the same on all sides of one’s own body, and on the body of any other creature whether it is a dog, a cow or a brahmin (5.18); as stationary now, and now as enveloping all the quarters and the space between the earth and the sky (11.20); as appearing before the sadhaka in his own bodily form or in the form of any other saint living or dead, or of any deity; as giving rise to the experience that one is seeing himself in all the beings and all the beings in himself (6.29); and ultimately, as seeing the Viśvarūpa as the origin, the sustainer and the destroyer of everything except the devotees who have become one with God (11.18, 32). The ideal saint not only sees God but also comes to know His plans and purposes and the way in which He wishes to execute them (11.21, 26-27, 29).