True perfection lies not in impersonal liberation, but in loving service to Krishna in His supreme personal form.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.119 — February 17, 1971, Gorakhpur 710217CC-GORAKPHUR [43:38 Minutes] CcAdi-07.119_710217CC-GORAKPHUR Prabhupāda: [aside:] Dr Rao has not come? If somebody would have translated in Hindi, then these ladies could have enjoyed. [Hindi] viṣṇu-śaktiḥ parā proktā kṣetrajñākhyā tathā parā avidyā-karma-samjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate [Cc. Madhya 6.154] So 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 [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. [baby making noise] [aside:] They're disturbing. [speaks to some men in 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.