GOD AND GOD-MEN IN VEDANTA (12)

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GOD AND GOD-MEN IN VEDANTA (12)

 

Swami Ashokananda

 

There are, however, certain specialities ascribed to a Divine Incarnation

(of course, whether a given saint has these specialities, it would be very

difficult to prove or disprove). One special mark is that he has no ordinary

history of previous lives. Whereas it is assumed that an ordinary soul has

gone through many births and has suffered from many kinds of disabilities

in the course of its spiritual evolution, the Divine Incarnation has a divine

history; he may say, 'yes, I was incarnated as Christ in such and such a time;

now I am incarnated as this.' That is to say, his history is always the history

of a Divine Incarnation and never the history of an ignorant man.

 

Another speciality maintained of Divine Incarnations is that while we find

that they have struggled to attain God and may approach God or talk about Him

as if they were ordinary devotees seeking His mercy - crying fro Him, feeling

their separation from Him - all those things are only playacting on their part;

actually speaking, they are always conscious that they are God Himself.

 

(Apologies for the long delay between this and the earlier postings - Girish.)