| From The River Of Heaven |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE PATHS OF YOGA : YOGA | |
| The Avatars The Puranas recognize ten avatars. All avatars come from Vishnu as he is the indwelling guiding cosmic lord and intelligence. He is the cosmic guru. These avatars are the fish (matsya), turtle (kurma), boar (varaha), manlion (nrisimha), dwarf (vamana), Parashurama, Rama, Krishna, Buddha and Kalki. Parashurama shows the man of power, Rama the Divine warrior and protector, Krishna the Divine lover, Buddha the Divine sage, and Kalki the completer and saviour. In this scheme we see the idea of the evolution of the soul from the animal realms to perfect spiritual knowledge. The idea of the messiah came to the western religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam from the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia. Zoroastrianism has similar incarnations of Vrithragna (Indra). Hence it is related to the avatar idea of the Hindus.
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