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"In Arjuna, there is only the Avesa (suffusing) of Xarn. Krishna
is Narayana Himself

Sri Krishna said to Arjuna: "I have passed through many
births as well as thou. I know them all. Not so thou."

This shows that Arjuna was not Xara himself, the supplement
of Narayana, for in that case he would have remembered his previous
births. But, as the Tantra says, " Arjuna was possessed by the Xara
aspect of the dual Rishi."

Sri Krishna said to Devaki:

"At my first birth, in the Svayam-bhuva Manvantara, thou wert

born as Prisni and this Vasudeva was named Prajapati Sutapas

I was born as your son, Prisni-garbha. I was also born of you, when
you were Aditi and Vasudeva was Kasyapa, as Upendra, also called
the Vamana or Dwarf Avatara. At this third birth, I am your son
again, with the same body." X. 3 xxxil. to XLIII.

These are the three Incarnations of Nara Narayana, mentioned
in the Bhagavata. They are certainly not the many births to which
Sri Krishna alludes in the Gita. Those many births took place in
previous Kalpas of which we know nothing. In this Kalpa, however,
he appeared at the turning points in the Evolution of our universe.
He appeared in the First Manvantara, the Manvantara of manifesta-
tion, as Prisni-garbha. We do not know the good done by Him in
His first birth.

As Vamana, however, he restored the Triloki to the Devas and
asserted the supremacy of the spiritual forces.

The Earth was again overpowered by the Asuras. The Kalpa
was about to be half over. The last struggle was to be made. Satva
had to be infused into all beings, even into the materials composing
them. Every thing in the universe was to be wedded to the Lord of
Preservation. An upward trend was to be given to the whole course
of evolution. Materialism could not be stamped out all at once. Put
henceforth there was tc be a steady fall of Materiality and rise of
Spirituality, subject to such variations as minor Cycles might cause.

Sri Krishna is therefore the greatest Avatara of our Kalpa.
"For the good of those that seek Atma, Nara Narayana shall per-
form Tapas in Bharata Varsha, unknown to others, till the end of the
Kalpa." V. 19-9-

Sri Krishna as Bhagavat is greater than the Second Purusha.
To the devotees, he is greater than the Purusha manifestation.

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