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	~~[[Category:personalities]]~~		<div class="section" id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div>

	~~[[Category:Material and Spiritual]]~~		<div class="sub_section" id="SB_Canto_1" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3></div>

	== ~~Srimad-Bhagavatam~~ ==		<div class="quote" book="SB" link="SB 1.6.18" link_text="SB 1.6.18, Purport">
			<div class="heading">That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material form and is not like any material personality</div>

	=== SB ~~Canto~~ 1~~===~~		<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:SB 1.6.18\|SB 1.6.18, Purport]]:''' That the Lord is not formless is experienced by Nārada Muni. But His form is completely different from all forms of our material experience. For the whole duration of our life we go see different forms in the material world, but none of them is just apt to satisfy the mind, nor can any one of them vanish all perturbance of the mind. These are the special features of the transcendental form of the Lord, and one who has once seen that form is not satisfied with anything else; no form in the material world can any longer satisfy the seer. That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material form and is not like any material personality.</div>
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	~~'''That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material form and is not like any material personality'''~~		<div class="sub_section" id="SB_Canto_2" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3></div>

	<~~span~~ class="SB~~-statistics~~"~~>'''[[Vanisource:~~SB 1.6.~~18\|~~SB 1.6.18, Purport]]:''' That the Lord is not formless is experienced by Nārada Muni. But His form is completely different from all forms of our material experience. For the whole duration of our life we go see different forms in the material world, but none of ~~them~~ is just ~~apt to satisfy~~ the ~~mind, nor can any one~~ of ~~them vanish all perturbance of the mind. These are the special features of the transcendental form of the Lord,~~ and ~~one who has once seen that form~~ is ~~not satisfied with anything else; no form in~~ the ~~material world can any longer satisfy the seer. That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material~~ form ~~and is not like any material personality.~~		<div class="quote" book="SB" link="SB 2.9.9" link_text="SB 2.9.9, Purport">
			<div class="heading">The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form</div>

	=== SB ~~Canto~~ 2~~===~~		<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.9\|SB 2.9.9, Purport]]:''' One who has actually realized his self realizes the transcendental form of one’s self. Impersonal realization of self and the Supreme is not complete, because it is just an opposite conception of material personalities. The Personality of Godhead and the personalities of devotees of the Lord are all transcendental; they do not have material bodies. The material body is overcast with five kinds of miserable conditions, namely ignorance, material conception, attachment, hatred and absorption. As long as one is overwhelmed by those five kinds of material miseries, there is no question of entering into the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form.</div>
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	~~''' The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form '''~~		<div class="section" id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2></div>

	<~~span~~ class="~~SB-statistics~~">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.9\|SB 2.9.9, Purport]]:''' One who has actually realized his self realizes the transcendental form of one’s self. Impersonal realization of self and the Supreme is not complete, because it is just an opposite conception of material personalities. The Personality of Godhead and the personalities of devotees of ~~the~~ Lord are all transcendental; they do not have material bodies. The material body is overcast with five kinds of miserable conditions, namely ignorance, material conception, attachment, hatred and absorption. As long as one is overwhelmed by those five kinds of material miseries, there is no question of entering into the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form.		<div class="sub_section" id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3></div>

	== ~~Other Books by Srila Prabhupada~~ ==		<div class="quote" book="OB" link="TLC 24" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24">
			<div class="heading">Material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established</div>

	=== Teachings of Lord Caitanya ~~===~~		<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:TLC 24\|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24]]:''' Whenever we speak of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we add the word śrī, indicating that He is full with six opulences. In other words, He is eternally a person; if He were not a person, the six opulences could not be present in fullness. If we say that the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal, we mean that His personality is not material. Thus in order to distinguish His transcendental body from ordinary material bodies, some philosophers have explained Him as being impersonal from the material point of view. In other words, material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established. In the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (3.19) it is clearly explained that the Absolute Truth has no material legs and hands, but in that scripture it is indicated that He has spiritual hands by which He accepts everything offered to Him. Similarly, He has no material eyes, but He does have spiritual eyes by which He can see everything and anything. Although He has no material ears, He can hear everything and anything. Having perfect senses, He knows past, future and present. Indeed, He knows everything, but no one can understand Him, for by material senses He cannot be understood. Being the origin of all emanations, He is the supreme, the greatest, the Personality of Godhead.</div>
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	~~'''Material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established'''~~		<div class="section" id="Lectures" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2></div>

	<~~span~~ class="OB-~~statistics~~">'''[[Vanisource:TLC 24\|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24]]:''' Whenever we speak of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we add the word śrī, indicating that He is full with six opulences. In other words, He is eternally a person; if He were not a person, the six opulences could not be present in fullness. If we say that the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal, we mean that His personality is not material. Thus in order to distinguish His transcendental body from ordinary material bodies, some philosophers have explained Him as being impersonal from the material point of view. In other words, material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established. In the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (3.19) it is clearly explained that the Absolute Truth has no material legs and hands, but in that scripture it is indicated that He has spiritual hands by which He accepts everything offered to Him. Similarly, He has no material eyes, but He does have spiritual eyes by which He can see everything and anything. Although He has no material ears, He can hear everything and anything. Having perfect senses, He knows past, future and present. Indeed, He knows everything, but no one can understand Him, for by material senses He cannot be understood. Being the origin of all emanations, He is the supreme, the greatest, the Personality of Godhead.		<div class="sub_section" id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3></div>

	== ~~Lectures~~==		<div class="quote" book="Lec" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976">
			<div class="heading">That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality</div>

	=~~== Srimad~~-~~Bhagavatam Lectures ===~~		<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976\|Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976]]:''' So there is a description of different features of the body of Nṛsiṁhadeva, description of the face, the ear, the mane and the nails, everything, very, very fearful. But the nails, the significant word is here—ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Ari-bhit. Ari means enemy, and these nails are meant for piercing the chest of the enemy, not of the devotee. Ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Everything is fierceful to the enemy, to the demons, but to the devotees they're all beautiful. They are pleasing. That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality. Everything... God is all-good. Even God appears in such fierceful attitude, it is beautiful to the devotees. God's stealing... This is abominable, stealing, in this material world. But in the spiritual world, that stealing by Kṛṣṇa is worshipable.</div>
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	~~'''That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality'''~~		<div class="sub_section" id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3></div>

	<~~span~~ class="~~LEC-statistics~~"~~>'''[[Vanisource:~~Lecture on ~~SB 7~~.~~9.15~~ -- ~~Mayapur~~, February 22, ~~1976\|~~Lecture on ~~SB 7~~.~~9.15~~ -- ~~Mayapur~~, February 22, ~~1976]]:''' So there is a description of different features of the body of Nṛsiṁhadeva~~, ~~description of the face, the ear, the mane and the nails, everything, very, very fearful. But the nails, the significant word~~ is ~~here—ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Ari-bhit. Ari means enemy, and these nails are meant for piercing the chest of the enemy,~~ not of the devotee. Ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Everything is fierceful to the enemy, to the demons, but to the devotees they're all beautiful. They are pleasing. That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality. Everything... God is all-good. Even God appears in such fierceful attitude, it is beautiful to the devotees. God's stealing... This is abominable, stealing, in this material world. But in the spiritual world, that stealing by Kṛṣṇa is worshipable.		<div class="quote" book="Lec" link="Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971" link_text="Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971">
			<div class="heading">We say personality, but this personality is not material personality</div>

	~~=== Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures ===~~		<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971\|Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971]]:''' In the beginning, the Veda says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no..., not personality. Brahma. He is person, of course. We say personality, but this personality is not material personality. Sighram cale evam sakala-vasta grahana kare: "He walks very quickly and He can accept whatever is offered to Him." So these very statements in the Vedas confirm that He has hands and legs, but not hands and legs like us. Apakrta. That we cannot understand. Aprakṛta. Prakṛta and aprakṛta. Prakṛta means things which are created, and aprakṛta means which are never created, sanātana.</div>
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	~~'''We say personality, but this personality is not material personality'''~~		</div>

	<~~span~~ class="~~LEC-statistics~~">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971\|Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971]]:''' In the beginning, the Veda says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no..., not personality. Brahma. He is person, of course. We say personality, but this personality is not material personality. Sighram cale evam sakala-vasta grahana kare: "He walks very quickly and He can accept whatever is offered to Him." So these very statements in the Vedas confirm that He has hands and legs, but not hands and legs like us. Apakrta. That we cannot understand. Aprakṛta. Prakṛta and aprakṛta. Prakṛta means things which are created, and aprakṛta means which are never created, sanātana.

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== Srimad-Bhagavatam ==

=== SB Canto 1===

'''That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material form and is not like any material personality'''

'''[[Vanisource:SB 1.6.18|SB 1.6.18, Purport]]:''' That the Lord is not formless is experienced by Nārada Muni. But His form is completely different from all forms of our material experience. For the whole duration of our life we go see different forms in the material world, but none of them is just apt to satisfy the mind, nor can any one of them vanish all perturbance of the mind. These are the special features of the transcendental form of the Lord, and one who has once seen that form is not satisfied with anything else; no form in the material world can any longer satisfy the seer. That the Lord is formless or impersonal means that He has nothing like a material form and is not like any material personality.

=== SB Canto 2===

''' The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form '''

'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.9|SB 2.9.9, Purport]]:''' One who has actually realized his self realizes the transcendental form of one’s self. Impersonal realization of self and the Supreme is not complete, because it is just an opposite conception of material personalities. The Personality of Godhead and the personalities of devotees of the Lord are all transcendental; they do not have material bodies. The material body is overcast with five kinds of miserable conditions, namely ignorance, material conception, attachment, hatred and absorption. As long as one is overwhelmed by those five kinds of material miseries, there is no question of entering into the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. The impersonal conception of one’s self is just the negation of material personality and is far from the positive existence of personal form.

== Other Books by Srila Prabhupada ==

=== Teachings of Lord Caitanya ===

'''Material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established'''

'''[[Vanisource:TLC 24|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24]]:''' Whenever we speak of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we add the word śrī, indicating that He is full with six opulences. In other words, He is eternally a person; if He were not a person, the six opulences could not be present in fullness. If we say that the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal, we mean that His personality is not material. Thus in order to distinguish His transcendental body from ordinary material bodies, some philosophers have explained Him as being impersonal from the material point of view. In other words, material personality is denied, and spiritual personality is established. In the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (3.19) it is clearly explained that the Absolute Truth has no material legs and hands, but in that scripture it is indicated that He has spiritual hands by which He accepts everything offered to Him. Similarly, He has no material eyes, but He does have spiritual eyes by which He can see everything and anything. Although He has no material ears, He can hear everything and anything. Having perfect senses, He knows past, future and present. Indeed, He knows everything, but no one can understand Him, for by material senses He cannot be understood. Being the origin of all emanations, He is the supreme, the greatest, the Personality of Godhead.

== Lectures==

=== Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures ===

'''That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality'''

'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.15 -- Mayapur, February 22, 1976]]:''' So there is a description of different features of the body of Nṛsiṁhadeva, description of the face, the ear, the mane and the nails, everything, very, very fearful. But the nails, the significant word is here—ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Ari-bhit. Ari means enemy, and these nails are meant for piercing the chest of the enemy, not of the devotee. Ari-bhit nakhāgrāt. Everything is fierceful to the enemy, to the demons, but to the devotees they're all beautiful. They are pleasing. That is the difference between the Personality of Godhead and material personality. Everything... God is all-good. Even God appears in such fierceful attitude, it is beautiful to the devotees. God's stealing... This is abominable, stealing, in this material world. But in the spiritual world, that stealing by Kṛṣṇa is worshipable.

=== Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures ===

'''We say personality, but this personality is not material personality'''

'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971|Lecture on CC CC Madhya-lila 6.151-154 -- Gorakhpur, February 14, 1971]]:''' In the beginning, the Veda says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no..., not personality. Brahma. He is person, of course. We say personality, but this personality is not material personality. Sighram cale evam sakala-vasta grahana kare: "He walks very quickly and He can accept whatever is offered to Him." So these very statements in the Vedas confirm that He has hands and legs, but not hands and legs like us. Apakrta. That we cannot understand. Aprakṛta. Prakṛta and aprakṛta. Prakṛta means things which are created, and aprakṛta means which are never created, sanātana.