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Historical Krishna - Part 10 The Purpose of Advent

What's the purpose of advent of a great incarnation or a person who can significantly steer the course of history and civilization? In Gospel Sri Ramakrishna says that only the power vested and its manifestation is the difference between an incarnation and an ordinary person, and also across different incarnations. They had been vested with varying degrees of power depending on the purpose, the situation and the historical need. In Gita Sri Krishna says that an avatara, or a special incarnation, a divine being who has more power than anybody else appears when dharma or the discriminating faculty (between right and wrong, moral and immoral and the mode of action needed) falls steeply among the larger masses esp. among the leading section (kings, politicians, statesmen, intellectual, leadership) and adharma or the ignorance, or lack of discrimination and associated vices, rises. More the degeneration, more powerful is the incarnation. What is the impact? The power helps in restorin