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Is He (God) a person?

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes. Unless... A person... What is the meaning of great?
Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne:

Prabhupāda: God is great. He's great in every respect, in strength...

Jesuit: Is He a person?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Unless... A person... What is the meaning of great?

Jesuit: Well you can speak about a mountain being great and that's not God.

Prabhupāda: But God can swallow millions of mountains. That is God. Your conception is: mountain is very great. But our conception is: God is so great that He can swallow millions of mountains. So whose greatness is greater, the mountain's or God's?

Jesuit: Well it's a different order altogether, one's...

Prabhupāda: "God is great," means whatever greatness, just as sky is the great, there are millions of sky, that is God's...

Jesuit: That's all in the material world.

Prabhupāda: Material and spiritual, we both speak. "God is great," means He's materially great and spiritually great. That is His greatness. If you think that He's spiritually great and materially small, that is not great. That is not greatness.

Page Title:Is He (God) a person?
Compiler:Marc, Rishab
Created:08 of Aug, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1