In plain words
That is the word “Persona”. Persona means something divine. From this Roman word Persona came the English word “Person”. From this word Person, in keeping with our culture of Bhārata, came the word “vyakti”. Vyakti means that which makes manifest what is unmanifest. What is it that is unmanifest? It is divinity that is unmanifest. That is the Ātma. So it is because man is the holy one who makes manifest the Ātma, which dwells as divinity within humanness, that the name “Embodiments of the holy Ātma” has come to fit man.
God is the embodiment of Prema
God is the embodiment of Prema. Man is a part of Him. There may be a man without anger. Or there may be a man without Satya. There may be a man without Śānti. But a man without Prema cannot exist in the world. In all human beings this principle of Prema is present equally, shining as oneness, as divinity. This Prema can be experienced along nine kinds of path. But Prema is one alone. That is why man too is a spark of God's own Consciousness. But unfortunately, because man's Prema flows out into outer nature, this principle of God cannot be reflected in man's heart. Through its ties with the world of nature, the mind is growing impure. So man's Prema is growing defiled. In such a defiled lake of man, the beautiful lotus face of God cannot shine.
The day man's Prema flows toward the Paramātma, toward divinity, that very day this principle of God will make itself known to him, whole and secure. The moon reflected in moving water seems to move. The moon reflected in clear water is seen clearly. The moon reflected in muddy water is seen only as muddy. So man's mind is the lake. When this lake is restless, the principle of Prema reflected in it, which is the very form of the Ātma that is Consciousness, also appears only restless.