The Upanishads

Saguna and Nirguna Brahman

Brahman with qualities and without qualities.

Saguna Brahman is the qualified aspect worshipped as Ishvara (God with form). Nirguna Brahman is the unqualified absolute beyond all attributes. Both are perspectives on the same reality.

Higher than this is the unmanifest, higher than the unmanifest is the Purusha.

Katha Upanishad, Katha Upanishad 1.3.11

This distinction allows for both devotion and transcendent realization.

Katha Upanishad