The highest truth - God is a person

Back to Godhead Magazine May-June 2008
Srila Prabhupada with reporters
New York J.F.K Airport 1975

Reporter: Swamiji, is there chance that all your followers can realize the highest truth?

Srila Prabhupada: They already have.

Reporter: They already have?

Srila Prabhupada: certainly, and I can deliver it to you, also, if you want. The highest truth is that God is a person, like you and me. Now, what is the difference between this one person and all the rest of us? It is this: He maintains all of us, and we are maintained by Him. But He is also a person, like you and me. Do you follow?

Reporter: Yes I do.

If God is a person interested in relationship with each of us, what consequences does that have for our internal spiritual growth and relationship with Him, and also one with another?

Such spirituality based on personality must be very sweet?

I was reading Gita today and the phrase 'Supreme Personality of Godhead' stood out. I thought, this is the perfection of religion, and this expression of God is the highest truth.

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