THE RISE OF THE AVATAR

THE RISE OF THE AVATAR

The rise of the Avatar is the reaction to imbalance of the psychological forces of humanity tending to chaos. It is the restoring force that settles order into society and then withdraws for the forces to play out their due roles till energy dissipation to utter decadence once more causes a future rise.

NOR DESCENT NOR ASCENT, SIMPLY AN ARRIVAL

The Avatar is born from the ocean of humanity, from the sea of possibilities, the potentialities of the Cosmic Mind. It is neither a descent in the vertically-down sense from the skies nor an ascent in the vertically-up sense from the sea of causation but is an arrival onto the human plane to enact the adjustment play, the drama of divine deeds that sets the balance of forces right. The direction up or down are all terrestrial, geographical, human, and make no sense in spatial terms that know neither the up nor the down of it. It is a descent in the sense that the Avatar is free and does not have to rise to scale the summit of Self-realisation. His is a descent from the divine realm which is spiritually higher, so to say, unto the human plane which is spiritually lower relatively. Hence, descent.

UNTO THEE, O MAN, RESTS THY FATE

But the Avatar can merely open up fresh channels unto the Divine and no more. Humanity will still have to work out its karma to arrive at a higher order of evolution. It is diligence all the way. Let there be no superstition about it. We are to carve out our own destiny. No one else, not even an Avatar, can do it for us. Humanity must work out its own destiny. Upon human labour and discrimination lies human salvation.

Written by Sugata Bose