God is not an external contrivance or convenience like the air cooler. He is the Antaryamin, the Inner Director, the Inner Reality, the Unseen Basis on which all this seeable world is built. He is like the fire-principle that is latent in wood, which can be made manifest when one piece is rubbed vigorously against another. The heat that is produced consumes the wood in the fire! Satsang (Company of the good and the godly) makes you meet with other souls (individuals) of a like nature, and creates the contact that manifests the inner fire. Satsang means meeting the Sat, the Sat which is spoken of while extolling God as Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat is the Existence Principle, the ‘IS’ that is the basic truth of the Universe. Align with the Truth, the Sat in you, the Satya (reality) on which the mitya (false) is imposed by minds that do not see light. By dwelling in that Sat, the flame is lit, light dawns, darkness flees and Jnana-bhaskara (the Sun of Realisation) rises. – Divine Discourse, May 10, 1969.