The material body is impersonal, but the soul wearing it is eternally personal, just as God is.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Roof Conversation — March 27, 1974, Bombay 740327RF-BOMBAY [13:30 Minutes] Conv_740327RF-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: So in the beginning, before the creation, God is existing; and after the creation, when the creation is annihilated, He will be existing. This is called transcendental position. Pañcadraviḍa: Purport: The position of the Lord is always transcendental, because the causal and effectual energies required for the creation..... [break]
Prabhupāda: ...before creating this shirt, it was imperson. There was no hand, there was no neck, there was no body. The same cloth. But the tailor, according to the body, made a covering of this hand and this looks like a hand.
This covering of the chest looks like a chest. Therefore, the impersonal means the material covering. Otherwise spirit soul is person. Just like you go to the tailor, according to your body the tailor will cut a coat.
This coat, ingredients of the coat, the cloth, that is imperson. But it is made like a person, covering of the person. In other words, the spirit soul is person as much as God is also person. Imperson means the covering.
Try to understand. The covering is impersonal, not the living being. He is covered. He is not imperson.
He is person. Very simple example. The coat, shirt, is imperson, but the man who is putting on coat and shirt, he is not imperson. He is person.
So how God can be imperson? The material energy is imperson. That is explained... [aside:] ...that is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā [Bg. 9.4] This jagad is avyakta, imperson.