Significance of the Maasi Maham-Siva & Sakthi Valipaadu

[Badri]

And what about the one who sees everything before him with kindness and love, but sees no god???

How can one see love and not God and that is the meaning of Anbe-shivam. God is love and not a form.

Gnani Gnani Gnani

Good one, that!

Is God a person? Or is God a concept?

Sivame Anbu is the former creed.
Anbe Sivam is the latter ideation.

To those who cannot go beyond themselves, who cannot perceive the abstractness of the whole thing, God is a person. To all such people are prescribed a whole plethora of names and forms and rituals and chants. Because they may find it difficult to think of Love in itself, they are shown a God with a form who is love.

But, to those who can think beyond their limited self, who can understand that there is more to the world than just their limited bodily, existence, who can actually practice such values as love and kindness, as Idiappam has said, God is only a concept. God is only another name for those very values they live their life by. The names and the forms and the rituals and the chants which are mere implements are no longer needed, for they are able to visualize a much higher form of Love and Truth. They are not limited to the "person", and hence have no need for a God with a name and form.

It is as Pradeep has said, the sign of a Gnani!