Swamiji clears up a common misconception about Hindu Avatars or Incarnations.
Swamiji delivers a fascinating and in-depth analysis on Hindu Avatars or incarnations. He clears up a major misconception – and that is, that there are only ten incarnations – one of them still to manifest on earth.
Swamiji says that these 10 are only the 'most popular' incarnations of Lord Vishnu, and he references the Srimad Bhagavatam to clarify that just as God is infinite, so the number of incarnations can be, and is, also infinite.
यथाविदासिन: कुल्या: सरस: स्यु: सहस्रश: ॥ २६ ॥
hareḥ sattva-nidher dvijāḥ
yathāvidāsinaḥ kulyāḥ
sarasaḥ syuḥ sahasraśaḥ – Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.26
Duration: 08:42
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Context: As always, care should be taken to remember that what Swamiji was saying, may have been very specific to the needs of people with him at the time. Please bear this in mind.
Links to our Guruparampara (spiritual lineage) organisations, which will broaden your knowledge base: Ramakrishna Math and Mission and our alma maters, the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa and the Sri Sarada Devi Ashram in Durban. The Ramakrishna Centre of Johannesburg is also active in Gauteng province in South Africa.
There are various publications [The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna etc.] which you can download at no charge, from the Ramakrishna Centre of SA website page, HERE.
The Sanskrit excerpt from the Srimad Bhagavatam and the translation, comes from here.
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