WHY DOES GOD APPEAR IN HELPLESS FORM IN THE WORLD AS AN AVATAR?

 WHY DOES GOD APPEAR IN HELPLESS FORM IN THE WORLD AS AN AVATAR?

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THIS IS FOR TWO REASONS:

(1) TO TEACH THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HOW TO REMAIN HAPPY AND FEARLESS IN THE FACE OF INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTIES.

(2) IT IS TO GIVE HIS DEVOTEES A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE HIM, SO THAT THEY MAY ATTAIN SALVATION IN THIS LIFE AND THE NEXT.

LORD RAMA WAS BANISHED BY HIS OWN FATHER AND LEFT FOR THE FORESTS WHERE THE EVIL FORCES MADE THE ULTIMATE ATTACK ON HIM AND SITA MAHARANI WAS ABDUCTED BY RAVANA.

HE ASKED THE BUSHES AND TREES OF THE FOREST CALLING OUT " SEETE! SEETE!"

HE TOOK THE HELP OF SUGREEVA, AND LORD HANUMAN AND THE VAANAR SENA.

WHILE HANUMAN LEAPT ACROSS THE OCEAN TAKING THE NAME OF RAMA ; "JAI SHRI RAM!"

YET LORD RAMA HAD TO TAKE THE HELP OF SO MANY PERSONS AND CREATURES INCLUDING SQUIRRELS TO MAKE THE BRIDGE THAT TOOK HIM TO RAVANA'S LANKA!

WAS HE HELPLESS? NO ALL THIS WAS PART OF HIS LEELA, HIS PLAY, WHICH WE SEE DESCRIBED AS RAMLEELA TODAY!

TODAY THE WHOLE WORLD BELIEVES THAT IT WAS LORD RAMA'S LEELA, DRAMA, FOR THE SALVATION OF MANKIND, -- AND THAT THE RAMAYANA WOULD RECORD THESE EVENTS, SHOWING THE WAY TO THE WORLD, AND GLORIFY THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT LOSE THEIR FAITH BUT REMAINED LOYAL TILL THE VERY END., AND WERE THUS MADE IMMORTAL.

HOW FORTUNATE WERE THOSE WHO UNDERSTOOD DEEP DOWN IN THEIR HEARTS THAT ANY SEWA OR SERVICE HE WAS TAKING FROM THEM WAS SIMPLY HIS TEST-- TO GRANT THEM SALVATION WHICH NO AMOUNT OF GOOD KARMAS UPON THIS EARTH COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM..

THIS IS WHERE DEVOTEES GO ASTRAY AND MISTAKE THE HELPLESSNESS OF THE AVATAR AS A SIGN OF HIS WEAKNESS.

SOME LACK EVEN THE COURAGE OF AN ORDINARY SOLDIER ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHO REMAINS LOYAL TILL THE VERY END.

BUT IF THEY WERE FIRMLY TO BELIEVE IN HIS GODLINESS THEY WOULD CONSIDER IT THEIR GOOD FORTUNE TO BE OF EVEN THE SLIGHTEST SERVICE TO HIM.

THAT HE WAS GRANTING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE HIM, WHICH WOULD NEVER RETURN IN SEVERAL LIFETIMES.

THAT HE WAS SAVING THEM FROM THE TERROR OF THE BHAVSAAGAR WHICH MEANT 84 LAKH BIRTHS AND DEATHS BEFORE ONE ATTAINED AN IOTA OF SALVATION.

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