God is supremely personal, the original father whose existence answers all questions about the Absolute Truth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — Los Angeles, July 5, 1971 710703IN-LOS ANGELES [21:11 Minutes] Initiation_710703IN-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Ādi, ādi means “beginning.” Everything has got a beginning. In the Vedānta-sūtra, the Absolute Truth is described as the beginning of everything—substance—and then different categories. So that origin, original source of everything, Absolute Truth, He is puruṣaṁ. Puruṣaṁ means person.
He is not imperson. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ. How the beginning can be impersonal? That is the way; consider. Just like ordinarily everyone's family—you, your father—you are a person, your father is a person, his father is also person, his father is also person.
So where you get imperson? If you go on researching, is there any history of any family where the beginning was imperson? Is there any history? Any royal family… Of course, ordinary family there is no history; but there are many royal families, there is a history. So in the history suppose one royal family, so is there any instance that the beginning was impersonal?
Hmm? What is your answer? Then the beginning of everything, as the Vedānta-sūtra says: What is Absolute Truth? Athāto brahma jijñāsā: now this human form of life is meant for inquiring about the Absolute Truth.
Not driving down to animal life, as it is now, it has become a fashion to become animal. Huh? That natural life, people are gliding so low. Just like Nārada Muni. He is a great saintly person, and he is never angry, but when he was passing through the way of heavenly planets there he saw that some of the boys of Kuvera, with other girls, they are swimming naked.
Nārada Muni happened to be passing through that way. So they were drunkards also. So when Nārada Muni was passing, the girls took care; they immediately covered their body, and..., but the boys, they were so drunkard that they could not take care of their bodies; they remained naked. So such a great saintly person, he became angry—huh?—that “You have lost all your sense; you are naked.” All right, he'll stand as a tree, naked for so many years, cursed.
That is yamala-arjuna. You know the story of yamala-arjuna; the picture is there. The saintly curse is also benediction. These yamala-arjunas, these two brothers, they become two trees.