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&quot;<br />

When<br />

&quot;<br />

The<br />

&quot;<br />

Person<br />

soul. * As it is, Personality clearly means Sat and Chit, and nei<br />

THE PERSONALITY OF GOD. 341<br />

intimate relation of God, as Being, to all His attri<br />

butes and to all His essence, constitutes the Divine Personality,<br />

which for God is His entire Being. God only exists for Him<br />

self, in a manner infinite and absolute. God has relation en<br />

tirely to Himself; for there is no being out of Him to which he<br />

can have relation. His whole essence is for Himself and this<br />

relation is altogether<br />

internal. The. divine consciousness or<br />

personality embraces all that is in God, all of which He is the<br />

reason.<br />

as applied to Deity, expresses the definite<br />

and Certain truth that God is a living being, and not a dead<br />

material energy.&quot;<br />

Emerson says that personality signifies true being (Sat)<br />

both concrete and spiritual. It alone is original being. It is not<br />

limited. It is that universal element that pervades every human<br />

soul and which is at once its continent and fount of being.<br />

Distinction from others and limitation by them results from<br />

individuality (Ahankara or Anava) not personality (Sat).<br />

Per<br />

sonality pertains to the substance of the soul, and individuality<br />

to its form. Another Christian writer (Rev. J. Iverach) points<br />

out that the absolute and unconditioned Being<br />

is Personal is<br />

npt a contradiction in terms, such as a round square, but that<br />

it will be true as when we say a white or crimson square.<br />

*<br />

we speak of the absolute, we speak of it as a predicate<br />

of pure being we<br />

; simply mean that the Absolute Personal<br />

Being is and must be self-conscious, rational and ethical, must<br />

ansv&amp;lt;&amp;gt;er<br />

to the idea of spirit. Why may not the Absolute Being<br />

be self-conscious ? To deny this to Him would be to deny<br />

to Him one of the perfections which even finite beings can<br />

possess.&quot;<br />

St. Meykanoan and St. TirumQlar had stated the same<br />

question long ago, as we had shown. This self-consciousness,<br />

$ujp6n&iLjemfr$eBr&amp;lt;Gy)^&) 7 and (Lpp&i (^eaw/f^Gv, as we have shown<br />

above, is not toJxLcgnfounded with the limited ^/.Itow/re/ of the<br />

ther Sag una nor Nirguna. Personality is opposed to Achit or

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