Guest guest Posted June 11, 2003 Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 shriadishakti , " in2centre " <supatni@b...> wrote: > Jai Sri Mataji > > Dear Yogis, > > I had been thinking about the Water Element myself lately - having > come accross some description about the Avatar of Sri Visnu as the > Boar-headed incarnation, Sri Varaha and His Shakti Sri Varahi. > Lyndal, Listed below from 1-10 is the development of species right from the first signs of carbon life in the Primordial Womb of Mother Earth billions of years ago to the present still evolving Homo sapiens. All these 10 incarnations of Shri Vishnu fit into the scientific chronology of the creation and evolution of the universe, but are still ahead as they also reveal the final evolution of humans into spiritual beings. All humans have taken countless rebirths spanning billions of years and reached this priceless human form, the highest evolved life in the eyes of the Divine. The final metamorphosis or evolution is that into spiritual beings. Humans are now in the last stage of evolution to become the spirit that all scriptures extol and expound. This is upheld by Shri Mataji and She has given this complex theory a simple name - Sahaja Yoga. Let's raise the consciousness of humanity to a higher level. jagbir The Primordial Human Evolution No. Incarnation Physical/Conscious expression: 1. Matsya-avtar or Fish: Water borne life — amoebae or primeval evolution. 2. Kurmavtar or Turtle: Water/Land borne life — amphibians. 3. Varahavtar or Boar: Land borne life — mammals. 4. Narshinghavtar or Human-lion: Semi-human — primates. 5. Vamanavtar or Dwarf: Homo erectus — primitive human. 6. Parshuram or Divine Seeker: Homo sapiens — conscious human. 7. Ram or Perfect Human: Homo sapiens — God conscious human; outer awareness. 8. Krishna or Supreme Yogi: Homo sapiens — Self-conscious human; inner awareness. 9. Buddha or Consciousness: Homo sapiens — Self-Realization; inner enlightenment 10. Kalki (Christ) or Spirit Being: Homo spiritus — God-Realization; Resurrection (en masse spiritual evolution.) " Vishnu became identified with various existing deities, and this syncretism has given him the character of a benevolent god, concerned with the welfare of the world, who periodically, in times of moral decline, descends to the world in various forms and guises to restore righteousness. There are believed to be ten such descents (avtaras) of Vishnu. Some of these are in the form of giant animals: the Fish, the Boar and the Tortoise. Then there is a Man-Lion and a Dwarf. But the most important in terms of devotion are Krishna and Rama, the seventh and eight avataras. " John R. Hinnells, A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books, 1991, p. 200 (edited by John R. Hinnells. " A century or so after Newton, an English biologist named Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882) added enormously to the body of breathtaking modern knowledge and to the development of what today is called the secular spirit. . . . People living in the pre-Darwinian world simply could not imagine a time before human life, and in their worldview all of nature was believed to exist only for human benefit. They also made the assumption that an even greater gap separated the animate world from the inanimate world. The myth of creation with which the Bible opened had long been treated as if it were literally true geologically and biologically. That myth suggested that the man and the woman were made on the final day of God's busy first week. God finished the perfect creation with this majestic act and proceeded to take the divine rest on the seventh day, thus creating Sabbath. " John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change Or Die: A Bishop Speaks To Believers In Exile, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998, p. 35- 6. " Vishnutattwa, the principle of Vishnu, has taken many a times birth on this Earth as the Goddess had to take many a times Her birth. They had to work together many a times. And with the principle of Vishnu the principle of Mahalakshmi has acted to help the ascent of the people. So the principle of Vishnu is for your ascent, for the evolutionary process of human beings. Through this advent and through the Power of Mahalakshmi we have become human beings from amoebae stage. This is the spontaneous working for our birth. For the principle of Vishnu He had to go through various incarnations to evolve. As you know there have been incarnations of Shri Vishnu as a fish to begin with and went on till it came to the stage of Shri Krishna where they say that He has become complete. But one has to realize that He worked on our central nervous system. He builds our central nervous system. Through our evolutionary process our central nervous system has been built up. And this central nervous system has given us all the human awareness that we have. Otherwise we would have been just like the stone. But through this building up of our awareness, one after another, building up different Chakras within us, this principle of Vishnu has brought us to the understanding that we have to see the Truth and ultimately we have to become Sahaja Yogis. " Shri Karanguli-nakhotpanna-Narayana-dasakrtih Shri Nirmala Devi Karanguli-nakhotpanna-Narayana-dasakrtih (80th): The ten avataras of Vishnu emerge from the fingernails of Her hands to fight Her battles with Asuras or powers of darkness — so Vishnu is Her creation. Her cosmic and supra-cosmic dimensions are indicated here. " We should know how the whole thing evolved from Shri Vishnu's evolutionary process. There were ten incarnations of Shri Vishnu. Shri Vishnu is the one who grows to be the Virata, the macrocosm. This Vishnu principle is very well established within us . . . Shri Vishnu principle is that it gave us evolution by which we evolved . . . This evolutionary process creates the wisdom. While animals have everything built in within they are pashu, that is, under the control of God. They don't have their separate identity or individuality to consider wisdom or folly. It is the human beings who have this great gift that they develop wisdom . . . The wisdom is a kind of Light that comes in your understanding. As human beings have evolved, even Deities have evolved themselves, that is, Shri Vishnu was a fish, then a tortoise, till He came to the stage of Vamana (dwarf) Avatar. Then He came as Parshuram known as Zeus in Greek mythology. Then He came as Shri Rama. He was the one who was extremely wise, cautious, careful, formal and a beautiful person. He was made to forget His own incarnation of Vishnu, though He knew about His Powers. He had to become a maryada Purushottam, that is, He had to observe all the boundaries of Dharma and to set the human ideal. " Shri Maha Rajni Shri Nirmala Devi Shri Krishna's Advent, Shri Krishna Puja, U.K. — August 19, 1990 " Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim the whole man and all his spirit. They are built on the principle of spiritual allegiance to an ethos and a dogma which, they claim, should rule all of man's life. It is the thesis of this study that as doctrines of man and as ways of life they have received dismissal notices from the evolving world of today; all three are resisting the peremptory orders; all three seem incapable of making the necessary leap into the modern world.Even to the most superficial observer it is clear, on the one hand, that all three religions individually make an exclusive claim to a certain authenticity, authority, and leadership — a certain dominance, in fact, as an inborn right. On the other hand, it is equally clear that none of them has an effective voice among the sons of men as they parley and dispute over their global destiny. More then that, this very claim to a certain dominance is not only being continually refuted and coldly silenced by the growing inability of any one of the three religious systems to speak coherently and intelligibly about this global destiny, according as the lines of the latter's development becomes more and more complex. Even within their traditional areas and increasingly for their own adherents, they are ceasing to be relevant. Their claim to uniqueness is being contended; the three no longer straddle the age. They tend to be regarded retrospectively, like figures receding more and more into the past. The main consideration of this book is that all three religions are caught for the same reason in an inescapable dilemma that offers no discernible alternative. The dilemma is briefly as follows: each of these three religions exclusively possesses, so runs the claim, the only answer to all man's questioning, and it alone can provide man with an explanation of life. But such a claim of dominance is utterly unacceptable to modern ma's mind. Five hundred years or a thousand years ago, these religions were making the same all-inclusive claims — but man's world was different then. In the last 500 years it has changed more radically than over the previous 100,000 years. Chiefly, a global crisis now affects all men alike on the very issues these religions once claimed as their exclusive concern. They, like man himself, have been overtaken by the logic of history. In this last third of the 20th century, there is something shaking the human race. It is as if the latter had carried strange unwanted dreams in its head for millennia, only to wake up brusquely and try to live the dreams. There is abroad on the human scene a spirit that cannot be caged. Something that has been compressed, held down, distorted, and enchained for a long time has now coagulated, boiled up, and is in the process of explosion. There has also been a shaking off of shackles, a repudiation of traditional molds of thought, as if man had suddenly decided to be himself — to see himself in the raw, not through the colored glasses of ancient mythologies or modern ideological presuppositions ..... Jorge Luis Borges, in his story about man's quest for meaning, describes it as a journey without an end that always returns in a concentric movement back to man . . . Modern man rejects the image of him imposed by exclusive-minded religions. He may never find his God. He may encounter only — himself. " Malachi Martin, The Encounter, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970, p. xiv-xvi. " Let us dwell for a moment on the route we have taken that has led us here and pray to our ancestors for understanding and guidance. Journey to mind the 4,000 million years of unbroken success since our adventure into biology began. Journey back with me. Let us reconstruct, recapitulate, our voyage so that we may remember and harvest the gifts of our ancestors.Honor first your mother's womb where a single seed from your father united with her egg and then flow back from there through the womb of her mother, and then back and back through mother after mother. A few hundred generations and we leave written history behind, metals turn back to soil, agriculture disappears. We lose control over fire, soon we are back up in trees, and then after a while we drop our opposable thumb and scurry as mammals on the forest floor staying out from under the feet of dinosaurs. Our fur turns back to reptile scales, we slither in and out of the ocean until we are back under the water and free from gravity. Backbones disappear; life becomes simple — a tube of cells, then single cells washed back and forth in ocean currents, until we leave the organic and swim in the molecular soup once more. . .Can we identify with this vast process rather than our race or religion or ideology? Can we represent the accumulated striving of each and every ancestor and bring this into our lives? What kind of choices, priorities, and personal and political agendas spring from such a perspective? Is it really possible to identify with the precious flame passed from fin to claw to paw and now into your trembling hand rather than with this present life alone? How shall we go about this? . . . Unless we learn once more to harmonize our human song with the great symphony from which we emerged and in which we remain inextricably embedded, our evolutionary journey will draw abruptly to a close. We are the last generation of humans to be offered this choice. 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