#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India ( Bharatham ) - 6.4 : Swami Krishnananda.

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1.#OPINION : Tuesday, January 18, 2022. 7:00.AM. 2606.

#Chapter 6: Quandaries in the Ramayana and Mahabharata -4.

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In an Incarnation, the Universal is pressed into concentration and focused activity in some measure, in some percentage, in some degree, and the importance or the power of the Avatara or the Incarnation depends upon the percentage of universality that is pressed into action in an individual form, and so we have got Kala-avataras,   Amsa-avataras, or Purna-avataras, as they are called – that is, segmented Incarnations, lesser percentage of Incarnation, or complete Incarnation. If the entire sunlight is focused through a beam, it will be hot and radiant as the original sunlight is, which is something like a Purna-avatara of the sun, but if this light is diluted through an aperture which is also connected with a medium that lessens the intensity of the light, even distorts it in some way, the Avatara of the sun would be diminished to that extent and the power of the light will be less.

However, the Incarnation is a conscious descent of the Universal into the particular, and the birth of people like us is an unconscious coming from the Universal to the particular, though we are equally conscious; otherwise, something has hindered the manifestation of that consciousness in us due to karma. It is believed that Avataras have no karma and they do not come because of the pressure of some karma that they did in the past. It is a deliberate coming down. If we purposely do something, it is an Avatara, but if we are compelled to do something, it is karma acting. We are born by compulsion of our previous deeds, but Incarnations are a voluntary, deliberate, conscious coming of the Universal into the particular for a special purpose. So are the Avataras, of which Rama is one, and Krishna is another.

Rama Avatara is the subject of the Ramayana of Valmiki; Krishna Avatara is the subject of the Mahabharata. Yesterday I mentioned to you the literary beauty of Valmiki’s poem and the tumultuous style which the Mahabharata adopts in a more virile fashion. The whole purpose of the enactment of this drama that is portrayed in the epics is to describe human life itself as it moves through the process of evolution.

First of all, there is an incipient complacency of the human individual in childhood. Whether they are the Pandavas of the Mahabharata or Rama and his brothers in the Ramayana, everything seemed to be going on very well when they were little children. Princes they were. The children of the kings have no worry, botheration or any apprehension of future problems. But on account of the innocence born of an ignorance of events that are yet to take place, they are suddenly confronted with some realities of life which hold themselves in a manner which was never expected in their innocence of childhood. Mostly our innocence of childhood is attended with ignorance. It is not innocence born of wisdom, but innocence born of not knowing the facts of life.

To be continued ....

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OPINION : ONENESS :

#It happens because you are a part and parcel of the world, both from the point of view of nature and of society.

#The physical body is constituted of five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether. In that sense, you are a part of nature.

#Nature is constituted of five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

##PARAMATMA= NATURE ( PRAPANCHAM ) + JEEVATMA

##ANCIENT CULTURE OF BHARATHAM IS BASED ON SANATANA DHARMAM OTHERWISE CALLED HINDUISM

##CHRISRIANITY AND ISLAM ARE MAN MADE SAMPRADAYA WHICH IS PERISHABLE;

##BUT SANATANA DHARMAM, EVER EXISTING

Decoding Dharma :

(1) sanatana dharma, that is, the eternal responsibility to be happiness, through the process of

(2) self-development, which in turn comes by

(3) studying discipline.

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JAI HIND

JAI BHARATHAM

VANDHE MADHARAM

BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.

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