Dasera

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From the next step our spiritual journey is explained via ‘Dasavatara’ which also can be seen as ‘Darwin’s theory of evolution’.

The second step stands to explain the following:

The Matsya Avatar : Life started as the aquatic form even as per science – why even in womb our existence is in the water! But, a fish dies if taken out of water.  Just the same, a man who lives in a very conditioned way of living without any scope for change and dies – here it can mean he becomes irritating, non-accepting, loses his liviliness et like with regards to the situations in life. He is very rigid with regards to change. He lives this state of being – spiritually.

Next is the Kurma Avatar which is represented by a tortoise which is amphibian by nature.  Here man starts adjusting to both type of existence.  For eg: a woman who gets married gets adjusted to her in-laws way of living though she has been born and brought up in a totally different way of living.  We can understand her mothers’ place as water and in-laws as land.  At the same time, she has to go on and off to water to maintain her sanity like a tortoise goes to water though living on land. 

It talks about life situations which are contrasting to each other at every stage of our life –be it our relationships, responsibilities, rights or our belief systems etc. we learn to adapt to the newer conditions and situations /people in our life yet go back to our old habits/beliefs/ tastes on and off.

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