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Re: Dasa Avtatara
C S Ramarao (cramarao@neuron.uchc.edu) wrote:
: In article <4fbmqi$9qn@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
: ntiwari@rs3.esm.vt.edu (N. Tiwari) writes: How is it possible that
: Balaramaand Krishna, who were in same yuga, be avtaras of Vishnu?
: There has always been a haze about which ten are the dasa avatArs.
: Most people count budha as one. So you have
: 1=matsya 2= kUrma 3=varAha 4= vAmana 5=narasimha 6= parasurAma 7= rAma
: 8= krishNa 9= budha and 10= kalki.
: in this plan of things it suffices that balarAma is the incarnAtion of
: the AdisEshu (the seperent). However, if you discard budha and include
: balarAma, the problem exists how can the god be in two avatArs at same
: time? Still there was a confrontation between rAma and parasurAma over
: the breaking of the sivA's bow and two different avatArs did com eface
: to face.
1. I do not think that there is any scriptural basis to
say that BalrAm was an avtar of Vishnu.
2. The idea that Parasuram and Ram could not have been in
same era is based on the notion that God is a finite
and definite entity. If you do not subscribe to such
a view, I do not see any reason why the two could'nt
have co-existed. In fact, we also see that Krsna himself
had couple of forms, and each of those forms did a
rAs-lIlA with thousands of Gopis.
--
Nachiketa Tiwari
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