Sanatana Dharma – When Lord takes Avatar?

Why does God take Avatar? What is the real purpose behind it?

The purpose of the God taking Avatar is to restore Dharma and establish the wisdom and righteousness

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 Verse 7

O descendent of Bhårata, whenever there is a decline in righteousness, and a rise in unrighteousness prevails, then do I manifest myself.

1) To bring in change - to establish righteousness, to end stagnation or reluctant to change.
2) Samhara - Bring in the death (to unrighteousness).

How death occurs?

Death of any living being may occur in several form, we will cover the top most reason of death

Death by Time – When the soul need to leave the body by time - say old age, time period of soul ends etc. the death occurs in a natural way.

Death by Body Organ Failure or disease - When the organ in the body faces a fatal failure (have many reason – accident/poisoned/disease/death attack etc.) and thus makes the soul force to leave body the death occurs.

So how God’s Avatar and Death is related?

Yes. There is a lot inference and relation to the death and Avatar of God. According to the Natural law or Dharma any living being born should face death.

So when Avatar happens?

When this natural law of death is broken or defied and the living being which has boon to take control over death and does not use its power or this gift of defying death in lawful way and starts destructing dharma or threatens natural life system in the earth and God of death does not have control on that living being. Then Lord takes Avatar to bring in death to that living being which defies death to establish natural law and dharma.

The Avatars taken by Lord Vishnu followed the laws of Dharma/karma are

Vamana,

Parashurama,

Rama,

Krishna,

Ayyappa

Among these Avatars Rama Avatar is more powerful as it took two avatar Rama (God Vishnu) and Sita (Goddess Maha Lakshmi) to dethrone Ravana and establish Dharma. Ravana abducted Sita and made himself defile and acquired sin as per laws of snathana dharma and this made Rama’s Astra to dethrone Ravana.

Krishna Avatar is very special and glorious avatar as Lord showed the human being righteous way of all yoga’s and how to achieve the God and to get dissolved in him.

Om Namah Shivaya