Sathya Sai Avatar Vibhava Namam

What is an Avatar ? Types of Avatar ? Aspects of Poorna Avatar ? Trinity of Sai Avatar Divine Aspects of Swami as an Avatar- ( 16 aspects ) Conclusion

Divinity has 5 names.

Para Namam
abode of Lord known as Vaikunta (unchanging) dwells as an Effulgence, not visible to anyone and has no form. Oversees everything. The material world and the subjective world suppliment each other to be finally known as One Fullness (Poornam). Such fullness is known as parabrahma.

From the Parabrahma or Fullness, the Jiva or the Individual known as the Compliment arises. When the individual sheds his material corpus in which it is encased, the eternal Universal consciousness is experienced which is again the state of One Fullness (poornam). This is known as the Parabrahma principle.

Divinity has 5 names.

Para Namam Vyooha Namam
Refers to the Lord reclining on the serpant on the milky ocean, and is visible only to the Devas. Only those with special powers can see Him.

Divinity has 5 names.

Para Namam Vyooha Namam Vibhava Namam
Refers to various incarnations on earth that we refer to as Dasavatar. Incarnates to protect the good, and bring the wicked on the right path through various means. In this form the relationship between man and God is established.

Divinity has 5 names.

Para Namam Vyooha Namam Vibhava Namam Antaratma Namam
In this form, God pervates every aspect of Human being and is the indwelling spirit.

Divinity has 5 names.

Para Namam Vyooha Namam Vibhava Namam Antaratma Namam Archana Namam
It is the form in which the divine can be worshipped, adored, praised, for securing His grace.

Who is an Avatar and why does he incarnate ?

God incarnates when man forgets his true goal and to remind him that his final destination is to go back to the divine origin, from where he came.
The first pair of opposites ( God (real and existing in all the 3 planes of time and beyond) and Matter(ever changing and temporary called 'Asat'). God (Personification of Bliss) has Conscious Power and Matter - Unconscious state with no Bliss or Ananda. In order to introduce the concept of Bliss to the Unconscious state, God willed Involution and Evolution.

Concept of Involution and Evolution

God in Prakriti

Man

Involution And Evolution

Plant

Animal

Spiritually understanding God

Dr. S.Radhakrishnan describes God's sport as God sleeps in matter, breathes in plants, moves in animals and speaks in man.

Inward and Outward Looking

Components of Mind Mind cannot be controlled but can only be channelised Mind has four components known as Manas Buddhi or Intellect Chitta or sub-conscious Ego or Ahamkara Mind is at the central location between the creator and His creation.

Mind and its components

When your eyes seek the external or creation and its components, you get drawn away from the creator and thus you meet the status of Preyas or Pleasure, which takes you automatically to pain which is its opposite. At this stage you are functioning through the Manas. However when you question each of your action through the intellect or Buddhi and discriminate, then you have the choice to decide between the right and wrong. Discrimination has two stages known as individual discrimination and fundamental discrimination.

Mind and its components

Buddhi Intellect Ahamkara Ego

Prakriti

Manas

God

Chitta Sub-Conscious

Inward and Outward Paths

External Pravritti Material Pleasure

Preyas

Mind

Sreyas

Internal Nivritti
Spiritual Bliss

Inward and Outward Paths

One that sees Man in God

Great

Mind

Good

One that sees God in Man

Cleansing and Channelising the Mind

The body becomes healthy by exercise and work; the mind becomes healthy by upasana (devout contemplation) and namasmarana (remembrance of the divine), by regular, wellplanned discipline, joyfully accepted and joyfully carried out. There are four requisites to understand and follow the teachings of the Avatars. 1) Tyaja durjana samsargam (Give up bad company) 2) Bhaja sadhu samagamam (Seek the company of the Wise and pious) 3) Kuru punyam ahoratram (Helping others is merit, harming others is sin) 4) Smara nityam anityatam (discriminate between good (eternal) and transient.

Who is an Avatar and why does he incarnate ?

God, before incarnation, sends sign-posts, in the form of saints and seers and when things go beyond them, God, out of his infinite compassion and love comes down personally to correct man-kind. He is the Divine Director, who chooses to enter the scene at the appropriate moment to set things right and to transform the senses and the heart.*

Who is an Avatar and why does he incarnate ?

* Evil cannot be dealt with by man after a certain
stage without Gods intervention. It is also to teach him that that the treasure of human life is to realize Self, God comes down to guide man to his final destination. * Avatars choose the time and the mode of announcement of their advent and their glory. There is no laukikam (worldliness) in their behaviour; it is all alaukikam (other worldly). Every avatar has two causes: prayers of devotees and atrocities of wicked people. The unity of these two is essential for an avatar.

Types of Avatar 4 Types of Avatar

Avesavatar - is a momentary manifestation of God on the
earth with a limited mission. Not born to any earthly parents. Appears from nowhere and disappears after achieving the limited mission. Narasimhavatar to slay the demon Hiranya kasyapa, is an example.

Types of Avatar 4 Types of Avatar

Avesavatar Yogavatar - makes His advent to teach man, yoga the path
leading to God. Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa in recent times and Sri Dattatreya in ancient times are the examples.

Types of Avatar 4 Types of Avatar

Avesavatar Yogavatar Amsavatar - is a partial manifestation of God. Mohini avatar
one such example of the beauty or Saundarya of the Lord manifesting itself in the form of a Woman - Mohini.

Types of Avatar 4 Types of Avatar

Avesavatar Yogavatar Amsavatar Poornavatar is the complete manifestation of God. Sri
Krishna and Sri Sathya Sai Baba are the only two Poornavatars in the history of Mankind.
The Avatars advent into the physical world is by Pravesha (entry) into the chosen Womb as against Prasava (set down) which is how humans are born.

Sixteen Attributes of a Poornavatar

The five senses: 1. Sabda-sound 2.Sparsatouch 3.Roopa-form 4.Rasa-taste 5.Gandha smell 6.Manas Mind 7.Buddhi Intellect 8.Chitta Sub Conscious 9.Ahamkara - ego These are the first nine attributes, which are shared by all men.

Sixteen Attributes of a Poornavatar

10. Anugraha or the power of Grace is the tenth attribute, which can be seen in the personality of saints. 11. Viseshanugraha or the power of special Grace, which is to be found only in a divine incarnation, is the eleventh attribute. It is the power to shower Grace on any one, anywhere, even if he has not come into the physical presence of the Avatar. 12. The twelfth attribute is the power of srishti, stithi and laya i.e, the power to create, sustain and annihilate.

13. The next is Sarvantaryamitva, Sarvajnatva and Sarvasaktatva i.e, the omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence.

Sixteen Attributes of a Poornavatar

14. The fourteenth attribute is Tirodhana or the power to appear and disappear anywhere.

15. The fifteenth attribute is Nama sakti or the power of the name. He is present wherever His name is chanted or thought of.
16. The final attribute is Roopa sakti or the power of His form. He is present where ever His form (like in a picture or a photograph) is there or wherever His form is visualised.

Role and relevance of Avatars

Rama Avatar
Establish Dharani (earth), Dharma and Dharma Patni. Rama lamented over the abduction of Seeta. Rama was provoked to take arms against the evil doers. Duty comes first, joy later. Rama is known as maya avatar.

Krishna Avatar
Establish Dharma Women were in distress for the sake of Krishna Krishna Provoked conflict and fought the evil doers. Joy comes first, duty later.

Krishna is known as Leela Avatar. Krishna was always in a state of bliss.

Need for an Avatar in the Current Age

19th and 20th centuries constitute an important phase in the history of Mankind. Modern age by industrial revolution Political Revolution in India and Abroad National Renaissance by Spiritual luminaries like Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa Rise and fall of Capitalism, communism, imperialism, et al. Loss of Morality Two world wars, German and Nuclear Holocausts The world on the brink of disaster because of man going astray

Advent of the Sai Trinity

Salutations to Sage Bharadwaj

Sai Avatar and Sai Era

The Sai Avatar encompasses the three centuries.

Shirdi Sai - 1838 to 1918, the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. Sathya Sai - the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
Prema Sai - the 21st century and -------------

Sai Mahimas Defining Mahima

That which has no origin knows no beginning. It was before everything or anything was. For that very reason it has no end. It expands as far as It wills, progresses as diverse as It Feels, and through Its Fullness, It fills the Universe too. Knowledge of this supreme Principle is known as Vidya, Knowledge, Wisdom and Awareness.

Avatar and the Golden Age

The rise of good leadership in all the spheres of life and in all parts of the world encouraging and rewarding goodness, and discouraging and punishing the evil. Synthesis of science and spirituality and spiritual orientation to scientific pursuit. Physics shaking hands with metaphysics, and psychology culminating in the discovery of the Self,

Avatar and the Golden Age

Religious harmony by the acceptance of the unity of religions and the father-hood of God and the brotherhood of man. Universal acceptance of the spiritual and moral values leading to the discarding of all types of violence in mutual relations between man and man, and nation and nation.

Mankind bound by love leading to the harmonious coexistence of all nations and the united struggle against poverty, ignorance, disease and natural calamities, and for the restoration of ecological balance, and for the achievement of freedom from fear of war.
Education (Vidya) and Healthcare (Vaidya) should be given free of charge to all.

Avatar on Himself
In this Avatar, the wicked will not be destroyed, they will be corrected, reformed and educated, and led back to the path from which they have strayed. The White Ant infected Tree will NOT be cut. It will be saved. Avatar comes as man in order to demonstrate that man is divine, and in order to be within the reach of man. The human mind cannot comprehend the Absolute; it is abstract and beyond the reach of speech, mind, and intellect.

This Avatar will not select some place other than the place where the nativity took place for the centre of leelas, mahimas and upadeshas. This Tree shall not be transplanted. It will grow from where it rose first from the earth.

Avatar on Himself
This Avatar does not have any affinity or attachment in its career with the members of the family wherein it appeared. Unlike the Avatars of Rama, Krishna etc., when the life was played for the family members, this Avatar is for Bhaktas, the aspirants, the sadhus and sadhakas, ONLY.

It has no japa, or dhyana, or yoga; it knows no worship. It will NOT pray to anything, for it is the Highest. It only teaches you to worship and pray.. Sathyasai Speaks Vol I, Page 22.

Avatar on Himself
Come One and All ! See in Me, Yourself, for I see Myself in You all. You are My Life, My Breath, and My Soul. You are My forms, all. When I love you, I love Myself; When you love Yourself, you love Me! I have separated Myself from Myself, so that I may love Myself. My beloved Ones, You are My Own self. Sathyam, Shivam, Sundaram P-IV, p143.

Avatar and His mission

Re Establish Human Values Teach us the real purpose of Education Unity of Religions (National & International integration with concept of Unity) showing Leadership of the highest form. Service to mankind and to creation at large, as the highest form of activity. (Narayana Seva and Health care, and Water) Work, worship and Wisdom (bud, flower and fruit) Revival of Vedas Aham SathyaBodhaka I am the teacher of Truth Bhagawan Baba declares. Every word of this Teacher of Teachers, is a Mantra, every discourse is an Upanishad.

Boon of Vahinis to mankind

16 vahinis for the benefit of mankind. Unlike Bhagawad Gita, the vahinis cover vide ranging subjects on all aspects relating to the subjectivve and objective world, besides ancient and modern way of conducting oneself and realising the purpose of Life, and returning to Ones source and avoiding the recurring birth and deaths. If Bhagawad Gita was the essence of the Upanishads, then the vahinis can be termed as the essence of entire Vedas and the Vedanta.

Avatar prescribes
I do not prescribe elaborate japam and Dhyanam for you to win grace. Control your tongue. Make it sweet and soft. Do not yield to the whims of the senses, dwell always in the thought of God, remind yourself on the glory and majesty of God that is enough religious discipline for you. Of all the sadhanas repetition of the Name of God is the most effective. If that is not possible Karma is next best. If no Sadhana is done, then Love of God is enough. With Love of God, no discipline or practice is necessary. Seva is more fruitful than japa, dhyana, yagna and yoga, usually recommended for spiritual aspirants, for it serves two purposes the extinction of the ego and the attainment of the ananda.

Avatar prescribes
Train yourself to serve God by serving man, in whom there is God installed in the heart. Convince yourself that Seva of man is worship of God. Do not be ashamed that you have been asked to watch a heap of sandals, or carry water to the thirsty or stand at the gate. The privilege and pleasure consist in the use to which you put your skills and time for helping others. You long to serve Me. Let Me tell you serving those who serve Me, gives me as much of satisfaction as if you were serving Me. Serving anyone is serving Me, for I am in all. Install the Lord in your heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings. That is the worship I like most, the devotion I appreciate most.

Avatars Unique ways

The Lord loves, not the Bhaktha but his Bhakthi. Remember. The Lord's Grace is like rain, pure water falling equally everywhere; but its taste gets changed according to the soil through which it flows. So also the Lord's words are sweet to some, bitter to others. The Lord's ways are mysterious. He blessed Vidura with the words, 'Be destroyed' and Dussasana with the words, 'Live for a thousand years; He meant that Vidura's 'I will be destroyed and that the wicked Dussasana will have to suffer the ills and tribulations of this world for ten centuries. One will never know the real reasons behind the actions of the Lord.

Avatars Uniqueness
Old familiar words are used but are given new meanings. Old moral codes are worked but they receive an inward content and direction. Old familiar hopes are mentioned only to be filled with new spiritual meanings. Samasta Loka Sukhino Bhavanthu. Hands that heal are holier than the lips that pray. Help Ever, Hurt Never. There is only one caste the caste of Humanity, there is only One religion the religion of Love.

Conclusion
Message of Avatars to Mankind. (Demonstration) Please feel free to seek clarifications through

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