How many Kalki Avatars are there on Earth?

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" Whenever there is decay of righteousness... and there is exaltation

of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth... for the destruction

of evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I

am born from age to age. " --- KRISHNA- Bhagavad Gita- fourth discourse

 

Hindus are awaiting the coming of the Kalki Avatar at the end of this

present age, Kalki Yuga (Dark or Iron Age). Baha'is believe that the

Kalki Yuga age has already ended and, as promised in the Bhagavad

Gita, the Lord has again manifested Himself to humanity.... this time

with the name Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah is the Kalki Avatar.

 

Baha'u'llah's name means the Glory of Bhagwan or the Splendor of

Ishvara. The coming of Baha'u'llah is therefore the start of the Sat

or Krta Yuga (Golden Age). It is the time when people will return to

righteousness and the world will be at peace.

 

Baha'is have pointed to the prophecies in the Hindu scriptures and

stated that all of these have been fulfilled in this age. There are

many passages in the Hindu writings which describe the condition of

the world at the end of the Kalki Yuga. Baha'is would say that what

is described in the Hindu books is exactly what we are seeing in the

world today. Among the most striking of these passages from the Hindu

holy books are the following . . .

 

" When the practices taught by the Vedas and the institutes of law

shall nearly have ceased, and the close of the Kali age shall be

nigh, a portion of that divine being who exists of his own spiritual

nature in the character of Brahma, and who is the beginning and the

end, and who comprehends all things, shall descend upon the earth. He

will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent brahmin of Sambhala

village, endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. By his

irresistible might he will destroy all the barbarians and thieves,

and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will then re-

establish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live

at the end of the Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as

pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue of that

peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give

birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita age, the Age

of Purity. " --- Hinduism- Vishnu Purana 4.24

 

 

All the Hindu scriptures are agreed that when conditions have reached

this point, when things have deteriorated and mankind has sunk to the

lowest depths of moral degradation, then the Lord will again manifest

Himself as the Kalki Avatar... when Vedic religion and the dharma of

the law books have nearly ceased and the Kalki Yuga is almost

exhausted, then a part of the creator of the entire universe, the

blessed Lord Vasudeva [Vishnu], will become incarnate here in the

universe in the form of Kalki.

 

Baha'i scholars have demonstrated that the prophecies in the Manu

Srmiti and other books indicate the exact date of the end of the

kalki Yuga and the coming of the Kalki Avatar. This date, 1844, is

also the year of the beginning of the Baha'i Faith. Therefore Baha'is

believe that, faithful to the promises and prophecies recorded in the

Hindu holy books, the Lord has now manifested Himself again in the

form of the Kalki Avatar. Baha'is believe that, this is the

Baha'u'llah.

 

The purpose of the Baha'u'llah's coming is to fulfill the prophecies

in the Hindu scriptures and to give us the teachings that will bring

in the new Sat or Krta Yuga (golden age) as foretold in the Vishnu

Purana. He will then establish righteousness upon the earth and the

minds of the people will be awakened and become as pure as crystal.

And these men, the remnant of mankind, will thus be transformed...

And these offspring will follow the ways of the Krta Age.

Baha'is believe that through the teachings of Baha'u'llah, these

prophecies will be fulfilled. As a result the Sat or Krta Yuga

(golden age) will be established.

 

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