What is the perspective with which we must study the life of Avatars? Bhagawan lovingly reveals it to us today.
Even before the advent of Avatar, the stage is set to the minutest detail – Kaikeyi is ready with her two indefinite boons, Dasaratha is ready with the curse of the ascetic on his head entailing upon him a death due to anguish at the separation of his son, and monkeys are ready to help the divine purpose. Sita is ready, risen from earth, to provide cause for the downfall of evil. Just as a garland is made of flowers of many hues and fragrances, gathered from many plants, the Divine Story is made up of a variety of incidents – a boon, a blessing, and a curse to provide the wonderful plot of His Story! Some say Rama shows man how to suffer! Well, if a king arranges a play in the palace and takes delight in enacting the role of the beggar, and acts very realistically, do you declare that he is suffering the miseries of beggary? Rama is bliss. Bliss is Rama. If it’s not sweet, how can it be sugar? If Rama is suffering, He cannot be Rama!
– Divine Discourse, Apr 01, 1963.
