Love Cannot Be Adequately Described
Narada admits that the nature of supreme love finally exceeds all words, as taste cannot be conveyed to one who has never tasted.
Narada acknowledges that the essence of divine love defies description, comparing it to the impossibility of conveying the taste of something to one who has never tasted it (Narada Bhakti Sutra 51-53). Words can point toward love, kindle the desire for it, and describe its signs and fruits, but the reality itself must be known by direct experience. This humility before the ineffable is the mark of one who has touched the depths: the more truly love is known, the more clearly its inexpressibility is felt. Narada thus turns the seeker from mere study toward actual tasting. The treatise itself is a finger pointing at the moon. To know what love is, one must finally cease describing and begin to love.
It is inexpressible in words, like the taste of sweetness known only to the one who tastes.
The confession that the highest love exceeds language is a hallmark of mystical literature across traditions, paralleling the apophatic silence of Pseudo-Dionysius and the speechlessness Aquinas reportedly fell into after his final vision.
Narada Bhakti Sutras