Manav Kendra

World Teachers: Avatars and Saints

A Real Teacher is known by the catholicity of His views in religious matters which attracts, from far and near, all types of people; rich and poor, learned and unlearned, young and old, in the different strata of life, regardless of sex, avocation and their nationalities and make out of them a beautiful pattern that irradiates a fragrant Light of variegated hues.

He exhorts:

Be One and sit together as members of one family. Remove all differences by sinking them in the Love of the Lord.

This is not something new. All the Prophets and the Messiahs, the Apostles and the Teachers in the past have said the same thing over and over again. With the passage of time, the good old customs tend to corrupt themselves. And we, engrossed too much in the world and worldly pursuits soon forget the verities of life and gradually drift away from them and begin to modify them so as to serve us as mere convenience for the work-a-day busy life on earth-plane. In the present times, when mind and matter have gained ascendancy over everything else, we find to our dismay that we have lost our mooring and are adrift like flotsam on the sea life. It is to salvage the wreckage of what we have made of the precious human soul that Saviours appear from time to time. Such indeed is the law of nature, the law of demand and supply, coming down from the hoary past and working in all the spheres of existence. The present times are no exception to this law.

Nature being the handiwork of God abhors vacuum in God’s creation. The All-pervading Spirit and Power of God is ever on the move, restoring equilibrium whenever there occurs an imbalance of forces or a violent disturbance in the different operational aspects of man; social or political, moral or religious, and above all spiritual. In such times, the men of God, sometimes in the form of Avatars and sometimes as Saints come down to the earth to fulfil the Divine Mission: may be to restore peace and harmony among the warring faction so that they may live in amity and concord as children of God; or to lead back the sincere seekers after Truth, yearning to go back to the Home of their Father. These are but two sides of the coin and cannot be wholly separated from each other and yet are generally worked out by different means according to the exigencies of the time. In the chequered history of mankind there have, at times, been occasions when both the functions had to be taken in hand by Saints, to wit normalisation of human affairs even by the use of force, if necessary, so as to keep the world ageing on harmonious lines, as well as, to put the world weary aspiring souls on the Godward Path.