Monday, January 9, 2012

For there are two aspects of the divine birth; one is a descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising into the divine nature and consciousness, madbhāvam āgatah; it is the being born anew in a second birth of the soul. 

It is that new birth which Avatarhood and the upholding of the Dharma are intended to serve. 

Chapter-The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood.
The Essays on the Gita,148.
Sri Aurobindo.


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