How to Use the Avatar

The way in which the Avatar has to be used for one’s liberation and uplift is: watch His every step, observe His actions and activities, follow the guiding principles of which His life is an elaboration. Mark His love, His compassion, His wisdom, and try to bring them into your own life. Man has become artificial, crooked, twisted out of his normal shape. He has left behind the simple natural ways and made his mind a lumber room for ideas, worries, anxieties, and terrors. He can live on very much less, with much greater joy for himself and others. If only he remembers that he is a treasure-chest with the Divine spark in it, he will be more loving and more useful.

God incarnates for the revival of dharma (righteousness), which includes morality, truth, virtue, love, and a host of other qualities that uphold the communities of man as well as the individual. The other purposes usually given, such as serving the devoted, destroying the wicked, re-establishing the sacred tradition—these are all secondary. For, he who is righteous will be guarded from harm by righteousness itself; he who is unrighteous will fall into disaster through the evil that he perpetrates. The one task includes all else.

~Baba
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, Nov. 1992