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Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hinliu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but contain- ing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental super man. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development -Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.

...as an incarnation, he [Sri Krishna] manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.
                                 

Krishna is the Anandamaya; he supports the evolution through the overmind leading it towards the Ananda.
                                 

...one might say that Rama is the Divine accepting and glorifying a mould of the human mental, while Krishna seems rather to break the human moulds in order to create others from the higher planes; for he comes down direct from the Overmind 'and hammers with its forces on the mind anq vital and heart of man to change and liberate and divinise them.
                                

 

Krishna opened the possibility of overmind with its two sides of realisation, static and dynamic. ...The next normal step is not a featureless Absolute, but the super- mind. ...Therefore there has to be a correction by Kalki.
     I was of course dealing with the ten Avatars as a "parable of the evolution", and only explaining the interpretation we can put on it from that point of view. It was not my own view of the thing that I was giving-

  

...Krishna's opening the overmind certainly made it possible for the attempt at bringing supermind to the earth to be made.

                                                                                

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