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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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They're one and the same. It is the process of realization only, that somebody is realizing the Absolute Truth as imperson and somebody is realizing the Absolute Truth as all-pervading Paramātmā, Antaryami, and some persons are realizing the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. But they are advaya-jñāna, identical, the same thing. It is our power of perception only that makes the difference. The object is the same.
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[[Vanisource:710217 - Lecture CC Adi 07.119 - Gorakhpur|710217 - Lecture CC Adi 07.119 - Gorakhpur]]:
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We are discussing three kinds of energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yesterday the question was, some gentleman, that whether the Ultimate Truth, Absolute Truth, is a person or imperson.

There are many impersonalists, and there are many personalists also. The personalist, impersonalist, and the localized Paramātmā worshiper, they are worshiping the same Absolute Truth in different features. Impersonal Brahman and localized Paramātmā and Personality of Godhead, they're one and the same.

It is the process of realization only that somebody is realizing the Absolute Truth as imperson and somebody is realizing the Absolute Truth as all-pervading Paramātmā, Antaryāmī, and some persons are realizing the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. But they are ''advaya-jñāna'', identical, the same thing. It is our power of perception only that makes the difference. The object is the same. That is stated in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'':

:''vadanti tat tattva-vidas''
:''tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam''
:''brahmeti paramātmeti''
:''bhagavān iti śabdyate''
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.11|SB 1.2.11]])

They're sounded in different ways: Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. But the object is the same.

So there is no quarrel between the impersonalist or personalist or the Paramātmā-ist. There is no question of quarreling. The example is present daily in our daily experience. Just like the sunlight, sun, sun globe, and the sun-god. Within the sun globe, there is sun-god. So which one is the chief? That we have to consider. The sun-god or the sun globe or the sunshine? Everything is light. Sunshine is also light, sun globe also light, and the original source of this light, the sun-god, is also light.

So sunshine is impersonal, sun globe is localized and the sun-god is personal. If you be satisfied that, "I am in the sunshine," be satisfied. That is called ''sāyujya-mukti''. The sunshine means combination of different molecular shining parts. Any scientist knows it that what is the sunshine. The sunshine appears to be a homogeneous thing, but actually, in minute analysis it will be found that there are innumerable shining sparks, molecular sparks only—they are combination.

(aside) They're disturbing. (Hindi)

So those who are merging into the Supreme Absolute, the ''jñānīs'' . . . their ultimate goal is to merge into the Absolute Truth in His impersonal feature. That's all right; you can do so. That is also not this material; that is also spiritual. That is not material. If you want to merge . . . generally, people think that is the ultimate goal. But that is not the ultimate goal.

In the ''Īśopaniṣad'' you'll find that it is said that: "Please wind up Your effulgence so that I can see the actual face." The same example, that the sunshine is light. There is no doubt about it. This is different from darkness. This material world is darkness. ''Tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ''. The ''jyoti'', the ''brahma-jyoti'' . . . it is recommended in the ''Vedas'' that you try to approach the ''jyoti'', don't remain in this darkness of material world. That is the injunction of ''Vedas''. And the whole process of emancipation is to . . . how to approach that Brahman effulgence.