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Re: Shri Krisha's Death
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Shri Krisha's Death
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From: santhosh@iss.nus.sg (Santhosh Kumar)
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Date: 23 Jan 1996 08:01:00 GMT
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, National University Of Singapore.
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References: <4di8b9$fop@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <4dksia$kn0@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <4dndk5$pqh@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <4duenm$gic@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
Singam (vijia@pop.jaring.my) wrote:
: Savio <savio@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
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: >- Krishna was a normal human, who felt he had a purpose to fulfil. That the
: >ideas of Avatars of God are not as we believe then anymore.
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: One could even take the view that we are all avatars. The difference
: is that we each have attained different levels of awareness of the
: Supreme Brahman within us. Thus some of us are more confused by the
: Maya and are therefore allow ourselves to be ruled by our ego while
: others recognise our divine nature and learn to Love.
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Avatar means descend, descend from an elevated state to a bodily
state. In that way, we all avatarred once in the begining of our
long yatra(journey), not any more, because now we are bound by our
Karmic bondage. In the case of Sri Krishna, this avatar took place
at that particular birth, so He is refered as an Avatar at that
birth.
: Those who, throughout history, have been deified as Avatars are simply
: beings with a great awareness of their own Divinity.
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Probably this explains why we don't remember our past, whereas the
ones with higher levels of consciousness remember.
regards,
Santhosh
