Fwd: How to understand incarnation from advaita perspective ?

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advaitin , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

 

advaitin , " kanaka_raju8 " <kanaka_raju8@>

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> Pranams!

>

> Also what is the nature of an incarnation. Is it a Jiva or Brahman

or

> something like Jivanmukta ?

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> I appreciate if some one can shed some light on this topic. I am

sure

> there will be some logical explonation to this from the advaitic

> perspective.

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> Many Thanks!

>

> Regards

>

> Raju

Namaste Raju,

 

Here is a page from my website which alludes to your

question....Tony.

 

AVATARS.

 

 

What is an Avatar? The name in Sanksrit means `to cross down', so

that could mean all Jivas, or individual entities. However it

usually refers to a Karana Janma or a person who takes birth, even

though they karmically don't need to.

 

 

 

The Universal Consciousness or `God' doesn't take birth actually per

se, but is ever the witness of this play of Maya. So many entities

rise up to eventually become vehicles, as the Avatars of Visnu.

 

 

 

It appears that this concept operates at different levels from Amsa-

Avatars or partial avatars, to Avatars and finally to PurnaAvatar

or `Fully Divine Avatars', like Krishna.

 

 

 

Like the Buddhist concept of a Bhodisattava, a Jiva puts off

Liberation or Moksha and wills another life, to come back and help

humanity.

 

This `willing' is of course is a thought hence an Ego-Mind is

preserved, otherwise there would be no rebirth or anything to take

rebirth.

 

However there is nothing to prevent such an advanced being from

taking Moksha and surrendering the ego anytime in the Avatara, from

birth onwards. At this time the Avatar would become a PurnaAvatar or

JivanMukta, a surrendered ego and fully merged in the Universal

Consciousness. So it follows that a PurnaAvatar at birth took

Moksha at that time. Becoming a Jivanmukta with a Prarabda Karma to

perform during the lifetime.

 

 

 

The signs of a Mukta are usually, being an embodiment of Love, and

having no desires/attachments, as this requires a Jiva Ego-Mind.

Other than that it takes a Mukta to recognise another one.

 

 

 

A Jiva who follows the Bhakti path, and doesn't desire to lose its

identity, would rise to a level of consciousness just short of

Moksha called the Brahmaloka. At MahaPralaya or Great Dissolution of

the Universe this Jiva would merge into Moksha.

 

 

 

All this is within the projection of Maya, of course. For nothing

ever took birth or is reincarnated-------- " Who am I " ?

 

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