THE AVATARA COMES TO STILL THE TURBULENCE
It is said in the Bhagavad Gita that “When there is an imbalance of righteousness and evil persists, I take birth from age to age.”
Why does the Personal God want to incarnate as an Avatara? He does not want to incarnate as an Avatara. You make the Avatar incarnate. This world, along with all the other planets, is the realm where the Avatar is incarnated. When evil rises, you are forced to bring that old chap down in human form. As every human being has an emanation around him, so collectively, there is an emanation, too, which we might call aura. A country has its emanations, a town has, this world has an emanation, and the universe has its emanations. And when imbalances occur, like waves in the ocean, the waves are high; at some places, the waves are low, yet underlying that is all such beautiful calmness.
The Personal God or the Avatara is more concerned with the waves than the calmness, for it is to still the waves that the Avatara comes, not for the calmness, although he is calm too.
THE THREE GUNAS, RAJAS, TAMAS, AND SATTVA
The Gunas, Rajas, Tamas, and Sattva, which you have heard of and that I have spoken about many times, are not necessarily confined to man. However, the entire Earth is also composed of Rajas, Tamas, and Sattva because these are natural forces. So, because of our thoughts and actions, we allow Tamas to dominate or predominate, and when greater emphasis is placed upon Tamas, then a greater imbalance occurs, and the darkness and inertia of Tamas overcomes the light of Sattva or the finer quality.
Tamas represents inertia and darkness, while Sattva represents light; the activating force between these two opposite poles is Rajas, which acts as the catalyst. It makes Tamas and Sattva interact with each other. Therefore, due to our thought forces on this planet, we either have a greater amount of Sattva or a greater amount of Tamas. And sometimes, we have an equilibrium where all these qualities of the three Gunas are at a steady level. Like the ocean, sometimes it is calm. The currents within it are so well balanced that calmness comes.
WHEN DARKNESS PREVAILS, THE SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS IS AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATED
As energies are shifted around, there comes a time in the life of any planet or solar system where a greater amount of turbulence occurs, and the emanation of this world causes this turbulence. When negativity arises, as it is happening now, with excessive permissiveness, an intense amount of killing, thoughts, and actions that are not conducive to nature, then it must be righted to preserve a balance between the Gunas that compose this world.
When a greater amount of thought of a dark nature arises and composes the atmosphere of this planet, then it has to be righted. The finer energies of the superconscious level or the finest level of relativity are automatically activated and attracted to where it is needed, and that we call the incarnation of the Personal God. So, do a lot of evil, and you will attract him. Like a magnet, you attract him – he has to come. That positive force has to come to overcome the opposing force.
He takes the form of a human being because all the other three kingdoms —minerals, plants, and animals — are proceeding according to nature and natural laws. They are proceeding according to the push of evolution without impeding progress. But the man, with his thinking ability, the mind I always liken to a cunning animal, starts impeding progress, and a halo of negativity surrounds the entire Earth. Just as clouds, when they become heavy, must come down as rain; similarly, negativity must be balanced out. Although this world cannot exist without Tamas, it is one of the fundamental components of creation. So, the Avatara is born, and he is born as a human being because he goes to the trouble spot, and human beings are the troublemakers. Not the minerals, plants, or animals; they are not troublemakers. They exist according to their nature. That is why a human form is required.
EVEN THE AVATARA HAS TO GO THROUGH AN UNFOLDMENT TO FIND HIMSELF
However, that Personal God has numerous problems. The most incredible suffering of an Avatara is to be born on Earth, and that is what we know as the suffering of Buddha or the suffering of Christ. Because from that vast universal field, from that super-fine, finest relative, from that vast field, he has to concretize himself into this little body. Can you imagine the pain? So, the Avatara has to go through various gradations. From the finest level of relativity, he has to grossify, grossify, and grossify himself until he comes to this level. It is like going through a funnel, so vast at the top and so narrow at the end. And, having to be born through human beings, it has to acquire the characteristics of human beings.
Therefore, you will find that the greatest Masters never start teaching until they reach a mature age. They never do. Because even the Avatara, coming to this small little limited level and passing through this vastness of the universe, going through all this dirt, has to come here and take a bath. That bath, removing that dirt, is an unfoldment of the Avatara himself. That is why he has to live like an ordinary person, gain the experiences of an ordinary person, to find himself. And after having fulfilled his experiences, he then realizes, “I am an Avatara.” Christ realized who he was only on the cross.
Although he had experienced oneness with the Father, “My Father and I are one,” the final realization came on the cross, and then he understood what resurrection meant. The same applies to Mahavir, Buddha, and Krishna. So, in reality, man would take lifetimes upon lifetimes to realize the Divinity that is within them, for the Avatara, knowing it all, finds it very quickly. Therefore, the great teachers, the real Avataras, have always started teaching after the age of thirty, never before. It takes them that time to realize who they are, and then the work begins.
THE AVATARA IN TODAY’S WORLD CAN NOT TEACH “BELIEVE” BUT “EXPERIENCE”
The most incredible suffering of an Avatara is to descend to this low level and interact with ordinary people. He gives forth his teachings, and the teachings he would give forth would be according to what people can understand. During the time of Jesus, his closest disciples were mainly peasant folk, fishermen, and ordinary working men, not intellectual geniuses, except for Judas, who, in turn, of course, betrayed him because he was an intellectual. To those people, he could say, “Believe,” and they believed. But, you cannot say “Believe.” In today’s world, the message I would like to convey is not “Believe” but “Experience.” – here are the tools I am providing to help you have that experience (through personalized meditation).
THE TRANSFORMATION OF MAN BEGINS WITH THE HEART, NOT THE MIND
Man has developed intellectually to a great extent at the expense of the heart. Therefore, in this time and age, we need to strike a balance in the development of the mind. We need the expansion of the heart, and consequently, you are given the Gurushakti practice. Do you see the reason behind it? Expansion of the heart. As these teachings spread, you will notice one notable difference. You will find the university lecturer discussing the highest philosophies, and immediately, you will understand him with your mind. But when a mystic, a man of God, speaks, you know him not with the mind only, but you feel it in the heart. There is the test. Where do the words enter? Into the mind only? Or into the heart? The transformation of man begins with the heart, not the mind. For the mind, to repeat, is a cunning animal.
So, the job of an Avatara is to activate the heart, and the Avatara never speaks only on the intellectual level. No. That is why the most significant truths we find in the world are in parable form. Because it leaves you the scope to interpret it according to the level of your understanding, that is why the Avatara speaks in parable form. Even an Avatara cannot lead you to salvation. He only shows you the path that leads you to salvation, but as I have said before, you have to walk on your own two feet. The light of knowledge and wisdom and spiritual force is not shone upon you but is shone upon the path. It lightens up the path. For that should be the way of your life. That is why we say, “That is the way, that is the Life, and that is Truth.” That is what the Avatara does.
THE AVATARAS HAVE ALL BEEN VERY CHEERFUL WITH THE PRINCIPLE “LIFE, LOVE AND LAUGHTER”
We say that all these great Avataras suffered. No. That is our interpretation that they suffered. To them, it was a joy. Therefore, it is said in the Scriptures, “Be of good cheer.” Because if they were not cheerful themselves, they would not teach you to be of good cheer. It is such a pity that the incarnations we worship are often portrayed with long, sad faces, yet they share the same principles and motto as we do: Life, Love, and Laughter. And yet, amidst all this chaos in the world, they show the way.
There was a Surgeon, an Architect, and a Politician discussing. So, the Surgeon says that creation is a surgical matter because Eve was created from Adam’s rib, and that is surgery. But the Architect says, “No, it is an architectural job because someone had to plan to bring a system into the chaos.” So, the Politician said, “That is very true, but who created the chaos?”
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1981 – 13
