God Can Take Birth As A Human
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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
aparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ I kathametad vijānīyāṁ tvamādau proktavāniti
Arjuna says: 'Oh Kṛṣṇa, you are younger to the sun god Vivasvān by birth. How am I to understand that in the beginning you instructed this science to him?'
Krishna is one example of when the divine descended and walked on planet earth in human form.
śrībhagavānuvāca bahuni me vyatītāni janmāni tava cārjuna I tānyahaṁ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṁ vettha parantapa
Bhagavān says: Many many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O Parantapa!
Divinity is able to take birth in human form.
ajo 'pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānām īśvaro 'pi san I prakṛtiṁ svāmadhiṣṭhāya saṁbhavāmyātmamāyayā
Although I am unborn, imperishable and the lord of all living entities by ruling my nature I reappear by my own māyā
Enlightened masters never die, they only leave the body, they are eternally alive and available to you. The Divine takes birth again and against to take us to enlightenment.
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata I abhyutthānam adharmasya tad ātmānaṁ sṛjāmyaham
Whenever positive consciousness declines when collective negativity rises, O Bhārat again and again, at these times, I happen Myself
Kṛṣṇa means that He happens on the planet Earth again and again in so many forms to guide and enrich the people.
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām I dharmasaṁsthāpanārthāya saṁbhavāmi yuge-yuge
To protect the pious and to annihilate the wicked to re-establish righteousness I Myself appear, age after age
Krishna promises to happen again and again on planet Earth to protect the pious and restore righteousness.
'Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa are almost of the same age. Suddenly, Kṛṣṇa says He gave this science to the Sun god thousands of years ago! Moreover, Arjuna lived with Kṛṣṇa for a long time. He knows and has seen the human side of Kṛṣṇa, all of Kṛṣṇa's līlā (plays), all of Kṛṣṇa's moods. So now, it is very difficult for Arjuna to believe Kṛṣṇa's words.
This is what all disciples who live around Enlightened Masters undergo. They find it difficult to understand the Divine descending and walking on the planet Earth in human form. Arjuna struggles to understand. How can the Divine descend? Arjuna is shocked when Kṛṣṇa says, 'Thousands of years ago, I taught this science of Enlightenment to the Sun God, Vivaṣvān.'
He says, 'How can I understand? Please tell me.' He does not say, 'How can you say this?'' He is now ready to believe, but he wants a little explanation.
Whenever enlightened Masters descend on the planet Earth, they face this trouble, again and again. When Rāmakṛṣṇa declared that the same being who came as Rāma and Kṛṣṇa had now come down in the form of Rāmakṛṣṇa, he was called mad! People did not receive or respect him. But a few qualified people received his words and transformed their Lives.