Perfect knowledge of God comes through receiving wisdom from supreme authority, not through imperfect human speculation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with British Professor — December 9, 1973, Los Angeles 731209R1-LOS ANGELES [32:22 Minutes] Conv_731209R1-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: ...is that at the ultimate issue, God is person. [hammering sound in background] Stop that tok-tok. Hṛdayānanda: He's stopping it now. Śrutakīrti: Banging.
Prabhupāda: Just like this sun, the sunshine, the sun globe, and within the sun globe. In the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, Fourth Chapter, the person sun, whose name is Vivasvān, he was instructed by Kṛṣṇa. Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam [Bg. 4.1]. You are a Sanskrit scholar.
Professor: No, I'm afraid not. Dharmādhyakṣa: That was the gentleman whose works he translated. In other words, the gentleman that he worked for was the Sanskrit scholar.
Prabhupāda: I see. So... Oh, you have no seat? They are giving him?
All right. So from Bhagavad-gītā we understand that Bha... Just like in this planet we are so many persons, or the President Nixon is the president; similarly, in every planet there are living entities, and the president of the sun planet is called Vivasvān. So he was instructed by Kṛṣṇa long, long ago.
In the higher planetary system, the time is different. That was proved when the Russian aeronautics were on the sky. In one hour twenty-five minutes, he went round the earth, twice or thrice, like that. So time is different.
So the point is... Just like the sunshine is impersonal, the sun is localized, and the president of the sun globe is a person; similarly, the Absolute Truth is realized in three phases: brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate [SB 1.2.11]. The first realization is impersonal, then localized, and then personal. So ultimately, God is person.