*VIJAY: "How can one see God?"*

MASTER: "One cannot see God without purity of heart. Through attachment to 'woman and gold' (Lust and greed) the mind has become stained - covered with dirt, as it were. A magnet cannot attract a needle if the needle is covered with mud. Wash away the mud and the magnet will draw it. 

Likewise, the dirt of the mind can be washed away with the tears of our eyes. This stain is removed if one sheds tears of repentance and says, 'O God, I shall never again do such a thing.' 

There upon God, who is like the magnet, draws to Himself the mind, which is like the needle. Then the devotee goes into samādhi and obtains the vision of God."

Source: The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna