Is God male or is he transcendental?

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so do we see god as male as he or is god beyond actually there are two ways of looking at this you can say at one level god is neither male nor female and you can say god is both male and female and you can also say that god is beyond all this so basically let me answer that all three apply to this first is that the as the identity of all of us as souls so the soul itself does not have a gender the gender that we have is the gender of our body but we as souls are different and the soul goes from one body to another body and the same soul in the future body may get a body of another gender I have written a book on reincarnation where I have given many case studies of people who remember their past lives especially small children who spontaneously remember their past lives and many scientists have done studies on this also so there are cases of boys who become girls men who become women women who become men so the gender is what we have is simply a bodily designation so in that sense what to speak of god having a gender we ourselves don’t have gender we are not males or females we are souls who presently have a body of a particular gender the soul is spiritual and god is the supreme soul so from this perspective of gender being a bodily designation god does not have a gender now the spiritual world the kingdom of god is a place where as I said there is a divine play and for the purpose of play there are different roles which are taken by different people so god himself manifests as the supreme male and he also manifests as the supreme female that’s why I said the divine couple there is a Radha and Krishna that’s how we on our altar we have not one god but god as the divine couple now among these conventionally Radha the female god she is considered to be the worshipper and the male god is considered to be the worshipper but both of them are god manifesting into different roles and reciprocating love with each other so that’s why in a normal conversational sense we may refer to god as a being so it’s a conversational reference but say for example I would say that all of us one of the principles is that we all are souls as I said that’s our identity but in a conversational sense when I have to refer to someone I cannot call you all soul come here I have to use a name that name is simply a convention that name doesn’t belong to the soul that name belongs to the body so similarly in a conventional conversational sense we normally refer to god as he but god is not restricted to any gender god transcends all genders and when he manifests he manifests in both genders as the divine kind