So the question is, why does such a Bhagwan (God) take avatar (Divine descension) on our earth?
उनके अवतार लेने का कोई न कोई कारण तो ज़रूर होगा, है ना?
Unke avatar ka koi kāraṇ to hoga?
(There must be some reason for His descension.)
There’s nobody in this world who can do any action without having a purpose in mind. Even a crazy person has some purpose in mind. It may be the wrong purpose, but they have something in mind behind every action they perform.
Now Bhagwan is self-contented, atmaram (one who is completely satisfied in Himself), poornakam (one whose every desire is already fulfilled). He has His Divine abode. He doesn’t need anything from us. He doesn’t need anything from this world. This world is to give us a chance to attain Him. He doesn’t need to come into this world, and yet He does. So why does He come?
In the Gita, Shree Krishna has said:
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārat.
Abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛijāmyaham.- Gita 4.7
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśhāya cha duṣhkṛitām.
Dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge.- Gita 4.8
Shree Krishna says, “I come to protect the Saints, My devotees. I come to destroy the demons, and I come to establish dharm (righteousness).”
Okay, there’s three reasons.
In the Bhagwatam, Kunti Devi says:
तथा परमहंसानां मुनीनाममलात्मनाम् ।
भक्तियोगविधानार्थं कथं पश्येम हि स्त्रियः ॥Tathā paramahaṁsānāṁ munīnām amalātmanām.
Bhakti-yog-vidhānārthaṁ kathaṁ paśhyema hi striyaḥ.- Bhagwatam 1.8.20
She says, “You come into this world to make paramhansas (the highest order of realized Saints) into Shree Paramhans.”
A paramhansa is someone who has attained God in the form of nirakar brahm (the formless aspect of God). Shree Krishna’s formless, abstract aspect.
अदृष्टमव्यवहार्यमग्राह्यमलक्षणम् ।
अचिन्त्यमव्यपदेश्यमेकात्मप्रत्ययसारम् ।
प्रपञ्चोपशमं शान्तं शिवमद्वैतं … ॥Adṛiṣhṭam avyavahāryam agrāhyam alakṣhaṇam.
Achintyam avyapadeśhyam ekātma-pratyaya-sāram.
Prapaṇchopaśhamaṁ śhāntaṁ śhivam advaitaṁ…- Mandukya Upanishad 7
Mandukya Upanishad says, “You can’t see formless God. You can’t relate to formless God. You can’t interact with formless God. You can’t think of formless God. You can’t describe formless God.”
So nirakar brahm is a Divine aspect of Shree Krishna, but it’s His abstract form, you can say. In that form, He does no leelas (Divine pastimes). He doesn’t distribute His prem ras (the nectar of Divine love). He just exists as an abstract Divine truth. A Divine, formless existence.
And the paramhansas, the gyani (knowledge-oriented) Saints, experience a oneness with Krishna in that abstract form. But they don’t get to see Him, touch Him, hear His voice, or talk to Him. None of that.
So this brahmanand (the bliss of realization of the impersonal brahma) that they get is, if you think of premanand (the bliss of Divine love), much less enriched. Premanand is much sweeter, infinitely greater than brahmanand.
So Kunti Devi says, “Shree Krishna takes avatar so that those paramhansas can experience His personal form and receive His prem ras.”
