{"id":6780,"date":"2025-06-25T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kriyayoga-mahavatarbabaji.com\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:22:42","slug":"is-god-personal-or-impersonal-by-yogananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kriyayoga-mahavatarbabaji.com\/en\/is-god-personal-or-impersonal-by-yogananda\/","title":{"rendered":"Is God Personal or Impersonal? by Yogananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">God is Spirit; the Impersonal is immaterial. But in creating the physical world, He became God the Father. Assuming the role of Creator, He became personal. He became visible: this entire universe is the body of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">The Omnipresent Lord is ever active; there is no place without some form of life. With unlimited prodigality, God ceaselessly projects protein forms\u2014inexhaustible manifestations of His cosmic energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\"><strong>Paramahansa Yogananda<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">From the book &#8220;How to Talk to God&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">According to the master Paramahansa Yogananda, God is simultaneously personal and impersonal. He is the absolute reality, the Eternal Spirit, and also manifests as the personal Creator of the universe, the Heavenly Father. Thus, God is the Absolute &#8211; the source of all Existence &#8211; and also a personal entity with whom one can have a relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">Therefore, Yogananda does not separate God into two distinct entities, but rather recognizes the apparent duality of his nature: God as the fundamental reality, and God as the personal Creator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">To help you delve even deeper into his words on the subject, we present below an excerpt from the book &#8220;<strong>Romance with God<\/strong>&#8220;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 320px;\"><span style=\"color: #8d6a3d;\">You can download the document <a href=\"https:\/\/kriyayoga-mahavatarbabaji.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/deus_pessoal_e_impessoal.eng_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 320px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kriyayoga-mahavatarbabaji.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/deus_pessoal_e_impessoal.eng_.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:250px;height:320px;\" data-width=\"250\" data-height=\"320\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">deus_pessoal_e_impessoal.eng_<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is Spirit; the Impersonal is immaterial. 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