Supreme Personality of Godhead – Personal & Impersonal

Supreme Personality of Godhead – Personal & Impersonal

Every soul is the part of Supreme Personality of Godhead. Due to influence of Maya, at time souls bring impersonal attitude towards Supreme Personality of Godhead. So the soul, covered with Maya (in material forms) descends to earthly planet but still as a part & parcel of Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Influence of Maya is so strong that at times soul forgets it’s origin and starts enjoying the materialistic life. It starts believing impersonalism and stops associating with the creator & goes through repeated birth & death.

Impersonalism is not about a groups or religions who don’t believe in personal form of God but it’s about any philosophy, attitude, mindset where everything is not related to God. Anything that brings concept/relation/existence other than Supreme Personality of Godhead is an Impersonal. There are many varieties of impersonalism such as:

• There is no GOD (Buddhism) – we are the product of natural processes and chemicals
• There is a God but he has no forms, no personalities – He is complete immanent, but what about transcendence?
• There is a God and he has a personality but no forms – He is unable to incarnate
• There is a God but I take care of mine - I have my family, I work hard and feed them, God doesn’t feed them, I worked hard t build my house etc..

Because of the above listed Impersonalism there are many problems gets created and some of these are:

In relation with God:

• Create Peace without joy
• Knowledge without love
• Justice without mercy
• Control without adaptability

In relation with human beings:

• Impersonal Dealings
• Mechanistic Society
• Isolation & loneliness
• Violence & Misuses

In relation to nature:

• Violence
• Exploitation

Any Impersonalism attitude is limiting the potency of God. It’s the God who is personal as well as impersonal and that’s the reason he is the God. God has a personal form but he capable of taking any from and there is difference between God and his energy (light, earth, water etc..). So, we have to acknowledge both principles - unity in diversity & that’s the definition of GOD.
So, the objective of human form is to associate with Supreme Personality of Godhead so that He gives an opportunity to a soul to comeback to Him. We have to believe that we are the parts & parcel of God and we should accept God in personal form as mentioned Bhagwad-Gita, Chaprter -12, sloka – 5 otherwise it would be very difficult to go back to Godhead.

Reference – Mantra -5 , SRI ISOPANISAD by Prabhupad