Avatar means descent of supreme power in human form.
First of all i surrender myself to supreme power and i ask sorry for taking up this topic as blog.
Because a person who understands purpose and glory of a avatar is avatari himself.
Many big saints and sages have attempted to explain glory of many avatar's and still they claim they could not comprehend the glory and purpose of avatar.
If this is the condition what am i going to explain???
This post is an attempt to give glimpse to a topic which itself is bigger then oceans...
One of poet explains "To write down glory of avatar even if all sky is made as paper and all trees on earth are used as pen and all water in ocean is used as ink ,its not enough".
Some communities claim avatars as godly recognized souls and some communities claim avatars as god himself in human form.Lets not fall in argument of this definition.For lay mans like us avatar is some higher power in human form.So lets start our journey to know tip of ice berg.
Lord Krishna say's in geeta,
"Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya , Glanirbhavati Bharata,
Abhyutanam ahdarmasaya tadatmanam srijamyaham
Paritranaya sadhunam,vinashayacha diskritam,
Dharma samstha panarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge"
whenever righteousness is in danger , whenever saintly people are in trouble , to uphold the path of Dharma i myself incarnate time to time.
Here "i" doesn't means only lord krishna of mahabharata.Here "i" means the supreme power.Because lord has taken human forms on this earth even before Kirshna avatar also.
Avatars can happen in two ways...
One kind of avatar is "whenever close devotee of lord is in trouble or whenever his creation is in danger because of evil power he descents in some form and protects them by destroying evil power". Vamana avatar , matsya avatar , Narasimha avatar ..etc are examples of such avatars.
Secondly when entire cosmos is in trouble because of unrighteousness , when entire mankind has forgot his duty ( swa Dharma) god descents in human form , be with us whole of his life and sets examples and teaches us.Such avatars are called "Poornavatara". Rama , krishna , shirdi sai baba and presently Sathya sai baba ...are examples of poornavatar's.
Now doubt may arise , why should god come in human form and take one life time to transform the society??Why cant he change the entire mankind into good people just in a second??or why cant he kill evil people in no time??
cant he do so???Yes , he can do... he can do any thing...But he wont do so!!
Any change brought suddenly is not permanent.There is law of karma ( rules of action and reaction) defined and governed by himself, so how can he go against his own laws??
God wants us to get transformed.So he takes human form , takes birth as normal human being.
With patience he waits us to get transformed.He himself takes pain and show the path..how to lead life."His life will be his message". Just for people to know that he is supreme power descended as human he performs some divine leelas ( miracles).Just he uses miracles are drum cards to attract people on path of godliness.Slowly but surely he starts transforming mankind.
Few fortunate who recognizes avatar at early stages will slowly become his divine instruments.
Through these instruments he will start operating his mission.
Not all will be fortunate to understand avatars.Its only his "will" which works.He chooses whom to give and when to give darshan , sparshana and sambhashana.
And many people will have critics about him , many people come against his mission, many people discourage him...its all part of his drama.
Is always true from kirshnavatar , not all people will recognize him as god.It was only pandavas who took krishna as god.Kauravas coudn't understand his divinity.
Ravana could not recognize Rama.
And history repeats.Even today when lord himself has come on this earth as Sri Sathya Sai Baba, how many people accept him as avatar??
Not all flowers in tree will become fruits at once.so also not all souls will get close proximity of avatars/gurus at once.
Many times baba tells "Its because of your past good karmas today you are enjoying my darshan,I have a mission and only my chosen instruments will have a role to play".
To list some of famous avatars of god on this earth are..
1) Rama 2) Kirshna 3) Budda 4) Swami Samarth 5) Dattatreya 6) shirdi sai
7) Sathya sai baba
Follow any avatar for they are are same energy with different names and forms.
Jai Sai ram.
