Passage 10

In English

Reason for the Divine to incarnate in human form

moved among men as an ordinary person, and drew-them to the observance of Hisprescriptions by means of His Divine . He refrained from parading His Divine Insignia, comprising a Conch, a Wheel, a Mace and a Lotus. He did not wear even a crown. While a boy, he followed the cows into the pastures with just a towel bound round his head. (Here called for a 1ongish towel and wound it round his head to show how appeared at that time. He said that in those days, as now, there were peacocks in plenty in and around and , so when he came across a fallen feather, he stuck it between the folds of the towel. It was a moment of rarest and finest delight when stood revealed as the boy , before hundreds of awe-stuck and adoring devotees). When the celebrated the and the , asked for some assignment to be given him, so that he might be of service. Though he could destroy the entire race, he tried his best to instill good sense into them in order to save them. Now, as well as then, the Teaching and the Message are the same: "Know thyself, that is the only way to know Me." Being associated ardently with all living beings winning their love through love, and through a process of correcting their vision and purifying their consciousness, leading them to the realisatlon of the God which is their core - this is the task before you. Unless the human form is assumed, no one will come near; if the appearance is super-human, people will keep away. So, as the (spiritual sciences) say, : "the Divine in human form" has to come to save mankind.