Dashavatar - 10 incarnations
There are three principle Hindu gods. What we call as the Trinity of Gods. They are the Brahmã (Creator), Vishnu (Keeper) and Mahesh (Destroyer).
Vishnu who is known as the Preserver of the Universe , seeks from time to time to redeem the world and as an Avatãr (Incarnation) manifests his Divine Being into the life of man, whenever evil threatens it. Each of these Avatar's have significant impact on the timeline of occurance.
Till date there are 10 avatar's that Vishnu has taken or Dashavatar. They are as follows:-
Matsya - The Fish
Kurma - The Tortoise
Varaha - The Boar
Narasimha - The Man-Lion
Vamana - The Dwarf
Parashuram
Ram - The Epic Ramayana is another chapter of loss, suffering, loyalty, friendship, triumph of good over evil. You will also find that in this story Rama along with an army of monkey's invades Lanka (Sri Lanka as its known today). To cross the ocean, the monkey army created a stone bridge. The amazing fact is that this stone bridge actually exists (at least in parts).
Krishna - The blue god. The Bhagavad Gita are his preachings during the great war in Mahabharatha.
Balarama
Buddha
Kalki
Buddhã Avatãr was added later . Some texts replace Balarãma to add Buddhã, believing that Balarãma was the incarnation of the serpent (Ananta) on which Vishnu reclined.
Does it come as a surprise that Buddha is considered to be an incarnation of Vishnu? Buddha or King Sidhartha renounced his worldly life to achieve nirvana under the Bodhi tree in Gaya (Bihar, India).Indian gods go by many names and our names are incarnations or variations of God's names.
For example take my name. Guru Vishwanath. Guru was given to me by my maternal grandfather because he wanted to me take the name of Guruvayoorappan. Guruvayoor is a very famous temple in Kerala (God's own country). It is the home of Lord Krishna. My second name although is passed to me by heritage & tradition as it is my paternal grandfather's name who died when my father was very young. Vishwanath means Master of the Universe. But it is also the another name for Lord Shiva. My point of describing my name was to share how many variations of the same Trinity are there. Hence, if you meet a chap called Shankar (it is another name for Shiva or Mahesh the Trinity or the God with the third eye), dont piss him off.
In the next set of chapters, I will describe each Avatar and their significance.
2 comments:
dashavatar talks about how human evolved from fish to man and how the world ends.
This film is very good one, this is the one way that new society could learn about old myth stories and believe about god. But in this movie, it shows Buddha as avatar of Vishnu. This is a real joke, cos director had misunderstand with myth and real history. Buddha is history, it can really see by ruins and proves always Buddhism as pure religion. No evident to prove that Buddha as avatar of Vishnu, not even in historical books. Also Buddha him self said, that he is not A any kind of god and he is a human, and there is no life after he was been a Buddha. This violate whole avatar image of the movie. So, directors like Mr.bhavik thakore must always be care full when do movie which directly involve in some religious background. They should not violate other religious rules and believes. So he must ask apologize from whole Buddhisms in the world. Because situation may different if he said "God Alla" or "Jesus" as vishnu avatar.
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