The cosmos or the universe is full
of polarities. We find everywhere pairs of opposites: good and bad; right
and wrong, beautiful and ugly, rich and poor, high and low, man and woman,,
oppressor and the oppressed, North and South, West and East, hard and
soft and so on.
As long as neither of them is more or less than what it ought to be,
there is no problem. But if they exceed their limits, they cause an ecological
imbalance, emotional imbalance, intellectual imbalance and even a physical
imbalance. You can never find absolute good or absolute bad anywhere.
We find them both in a balance. When it is lop-sided to the elimination
of the other, especially when the bad is trying to swallow the good, there
is need for the divinity to interfere and restore the balance, as a doctor
to the patient and a master to the student.
As and when the evil is on the ascent and righteousness is on the decline,
we find God incarnating to restore balance.
Our mythology depicts the incarnating God in the ten avathars starting
from the Fish to Kalki.
Each of the avatars is a role model for the balancing efforts.
"Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is the latest and
the most perfect - the concentrated embodiment of knowledge, love, renunciation,
catholicity, and the desire to serve mankind. So where is anyone to compare
with him? He must have been born in vain who cannot appreciate him! My
supreme good fortune is that I am his servant through life after life.
A single word of his is to me far weightier than the Vedas and the Vedanta.
"--- Swami Vivekananda
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