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Updated: May 11, 2025
And if also Danton, and Mirabeau, and Robespierre, and other terrible Avatars of the destroying Siva in Paris, had raised his naturally romantic temperament a little into the febrile and delirious now and then, what wonder? Shall the devil walk the public streets at noon day, and men not be afraid?
But if an avatar had come, it is fairly certain that he or she would have followed modern fashions in hair and speech; first, because real avatars have a sense of humor; and secondly, because his or her business would have been to reform, not the language or style of hair-dressing, but life.
The human soul, according to the Vedas, is a portion of the supreme ruler, as a spark is of the fire. Vishnu occupies the second place in the triad of the Hindus, and is the personification of the preserving principle. To protect the world in various epochs of danger, Vishnu descended to the earth in different incarnations, or bodily forms, which descents are called Avatars.
To this later period of Brahminism belongs also the alteration of the old epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by which the heroes Rama and Krishna are represented as avatars, that is incarnations or human impersonations, of Vishnu.
We may omit the other Avatars, which were of the same general character, that is, interpositions to protect the right or to punish wrong-doers, and come to the ninth, which is the most celebrated of the Avatars of Vishnu, in which he appeared in the human form of Krishna, an invincible warrior, who by his exploits relieved the earth from the tyrants who oppressed it.
There we have the modern Indians who fully recognise Christ alongside of their own avatars. The whole parallel is complete.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. St. That this present era gives promise of this hope, is evident. The attainment of cosmic consciousness brings with it immunity from reincarnation, as a necessity as a law, but it does not provide against the coming of avatars "sons of God," who are to "deliver Creation from the bondage of corruption."
The first few days after her return were days of frenzied delight, and we spent them almost entirely together. Her metamorphosis was now so complete, that I felt as if I were witnessing one of the fabulous Indian avatars, and that another soul had taken up its dwelling in this divinely beautiful body of hers. I could not tire of watching her as she walked, and listening to her as she spoke.
And before I could find time to answer him, he had removed himself, humming the shameful refrain of the previous night: "A la Bastille, a la Bastille, On aime bien, on aime bien, Nini, Peau de Chien." For three days neither of us spoke to the other. My exasperation was too deep for words. Was I, then, to be held responsible for his avatars!
They also, of course, recognised His providence. What then of the gods of the state? Some did not attempt to discuss them. Others treated the various so-called separate deities in the list as being only so many manifestations or avatars of the same divine power, and whether they were content or not with that attempt at harmonisation, who shall say?
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