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of judgement of what is good or bad, truth or false must come from God, who is Truth, who is Blissful and the world is false, evil, unpleasant and unblissful. That is another meaning of God.
But, there is another concept that God is a Principle rather than a person. Then we may understand something of the problem. Religions always consider that God is a person. By person, it means someone in talking terms, knowing terms and loving terms. A person whom you can love, whom you can adore and whom you can worship. But if it is only a Principle, it is not in those terms. Are we worshipping the law of Gravitation? We worship persons in whom those laws are exhibited, a person who exhibits those principles. For instance, Gandhiji to us means a principle. He tried to exhibit truth and non-violence. He searched for Truth and Non-violence or love. Suppose, we remove these pictures. Then the principles will remain. We think of Rama as a person. Rama is a dharma principle. But not a person having a bow and arrow as in Kondanda Rama, having particular colour - bluish colour as it is described. That is not Rama. So you will find ultimately every great man is a principle and not a person. If you ask if a great principle can be lived and practised, well there is a man who came and showed that it can be practised. So, to exemplify a certain man comes into being. So, if God is the Supreme person, he exhibits the principles continuously, incessantly and eternally. But then, whenever you look at a person, you see or perceive the principle. Whenever you see principle, you see the person. They are bound together. You cannot think of the one without the other. God is the first cause. As a first cause, he is also loved. So we find that the Nirguna is non-personal God and the Saguna is personal God. Non-personal God, that is a principle and personal God, both of them are inseparable, except by us. When we want to think on principle we think of Him as a principle. As a person we exhibit Him.
I was suggesting to a friend yesterday that it is almost similar to the scientific notion of considering energy either in terms of particles or in terms of heat. When we think that as a wave, it follows the laws of waves and then we can take it as a particle also. So, if you take it as in Religion, God is personal and if you think in terms of philosophy, he is impersonal.