Avatar means "one who descends." By this is meant one who is established in Krishna Consciousness or Brahman Consciousness and purposefully comes into our world to help us rise to Brahman Consciousness.
Avatars are of two types - Krishna Avatar and Jîva Avatar. Avatars that arise directly from Krishna are very rare. The Supreme Dieties of our universe are Krishna Avatars: Narâyana, Vishnu, Rudra and Ganesha. Lord Brahma is the foremost Jîva Avatar and all those who are in Brahman Consciousness are Jîva Avatars.
The mission of all Avatars is to help jîvas advance in their course of evolution back to Unity with S'iva. The most recent Krishna Avatar to incarnate on earth is Jesus the Christ. The teachings of Jesus constitute a complete version of S'rî Vyuha and provide the way for everyone to rise to Unity Consciousness upon death of the body, and His work with the Twelve Disciples is a training program in Brahman Consciousness.
Other Krishna Avatars who incarnated on earth include Parashuram, Lord Buddha, S'rî Krishna, S'rî Balarama, and S'rî Ram. There have been many Krishna Avatars that did not take human physical form, such as Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasingh, and Vaman.
Both the Vedic tradition and the Christian tradition indicate there is another Avatar to come in the immediate future - Lord Kalki. Kalki will accomplish two principle tasks:
- Establish a large group of individuals in Brahman Consciousness (the Christian tradition calls this the "rapture") and
- Replace all the leaders of society with caring Jîva Avatars to establish the immediate rise of a Sat-yuga - Heaven on Earth
Today there are many who are working to prepare the way for Kalki, and the most notable is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who has for the past 40 years been striving to create Heaven on earth through His Transcendental Meditation technique, World Government for the Age of Enlightenment, and other programs for the development of consciousness. A few years ago He inspired the organization of the Natural Law Party in may countries to provide enlightened political leadership.
Recently, S'rî Vyuha was organized by Vis'vamitra, who is directly inspired by Maharishi, to provide entry to the path to Brahman Consciousness for everyone.
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