Questioner: Sir, is God personal? Some people say that God is impersonal, I don’t know what’s the truth.
Acharya Prashant: For the person, God will always be personal. For the person, everything is personified. Do you ever see anything which cannot be touched, which is not bodily? Whenever the person will try to talk of God, he will always attribute a name, figure, a form, to the Truth. That is his helplessness, what else can he do? Being what he is, what else can he do? He will say ‘God is beautiful’, now what does beautiful mean? Beautiful as the rose. So, he has brought down God to the level of the rose. Now, the rose will wither away, God would also wither away? Now, the rose is very beautiful to somebody and not as beautiful to some other one. So, the perception of God too must be subjective then.
Do not talk of God as a person; as a person talk only of the person. See, what it means to live as a person.
What is your name?
Q: Hiral.
AP: Hiral, is a name given to some person by someone. And hence the expectations and obligations attached with it. And hence the whole burden of knowledge, and hence a pre-decided future. That is what the person is. The person must limit himself to the person. Because that is his proper domain. And if he will go beyond, he will only get more of the person, but will name it as God. And that is blasphemy.
