voorleven (iii)

Aeons past....

- in ancient higher ages of India -...

rishis enunciated the manifestation of Divine Benificence.

Of 'God-with-us'.

In terms of divine incarnations, avatars.

God incarnate on earth...

in enlightened beings.

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Many are the voices...

that have intermediated between God and man. 

'Khanda avatars' - or partial incarnations...

in God-knowing souls.

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Less common are the 'purna avatars'.

Liberated beings who are fúlly one with God.

Their return to earth is to fulfill a God-ordained mission.

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The Lord in the sacred Hindu Bible - the Bhagavad Gita - declares:

"Whenever virtue declines, and vice predominates... 

I incarnate as an Avatar. 

In visible form, I appear from age to age... 

to protect the virtuous, and to destroy evil-doing... 

in order to reestablish righteousness."


~yogananda~
the yoga of jesus
(2007) - ch. 1