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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS
The news of this event in the River Jordan spread like wildfire all over the country, and people came
to know that the messiah had arrived. And that very day John disappeared and nobody ever heard
of him again. John’s disappearance was the real declaration of the coming of the messiah, because
he had gone to every village saying that the messiah was com ing and the day he would come,
John would disappear He said that he was only the forerunner of the messiah; he was there only
to prepare the way for his coming, and that he would leave the world when the messiah came So
John’s disappearance announced that Christ, the messiah, had arrived. Now people began to ask
Jesus if he was the messiah. And he could not have lied to them; he said that he was the one they
were waiting for, he was the one who was there everlastingly, who was there even before their first
messiah Abraham was.
When people inquired, he had to tell them this much.
Question 5
QUESTIONER: THE LINE OF HINDU INCARNATIONS BEGINS WITH THE FISH AND
CONTINUES THROUGH RAMA, KRISHNA, AND BUDDHA. EVEN THE COMING INCARNATION,
TO BE KNOWN AS KALKI, IS INCLUDED IN THIS SERIES. BUT HOW IS IT THAT IN THIS LONG
LINE OF INCARNATIONS KRISHNA IS SAID TO BE THE COMPLETE INCARNATION OF GOD,
ALTHOUGH BUDDHA HAPPENED LONG AFTER HIM? WHY WAS BUDDHA DERIVED THIS
HONOR? AND WHAT, FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF EVOLUTION, IS THE SECRET OF KRISHNA
PRECEDING BUDDHA? IS IT SO BECAUSE THE MOVEMENT OF TIME IS CIRCULAR?
Even a partial incarnation of God is as good as the complete one. It makes no difference as far as
incarnation is concerned. An incarnation means that divine consciousness has become manifest.
In how many dimensions it manifests itself is another matter. Krishna is a complete incarnation in
the sense that divine energy has become manifest in all dimensions of his life. Buddha’s incarnation
is not that complete, nor is the coming incarnation of Kalki going to be. As far as the descent of
divine energy is concerned, the process of descent is going to be complete in the case of every
incarnation, but it may not touch every dimension of a man’s life. And there are many reasons for it.
In the ordinary process of evolution, completion should happen at the end. But incarnation is
outside this process of evolution. Incarnation means descent from the beyond; it is not a part of
the evolutionary process, where something grows with evolution. Incarnation comes from some
space that is beyond evolution. Try to understand it: We are all sitting here with closed eyes, and
the sun has risen in the East. If someone opens his eyes partially he will see light partially. And
another person will see light fully if he opens his eyes fully. The same person can go through both
processes – now opening his eyes partially and then opening them fully. And he can do it any time
he likes; there is no evolutionary process involved, no compulsion.
Krishna’s life is open, fully open on all sides; he can take in the whole of the divine. Buddha’s life
is partially open; he can take in the divine only partially. If today someone exposes himself fully to
the divine, he will have the whole of it. And if tomorrow someone closes himself, he will wholly miss
the divine. No evolutionary process is involved. This process is applicable only in a general way;
you cannot apply it to individual cases. Twenty-five hundred years have passed since Buddha, but
a man of our times cannot say that he is more evolved than Buddha. Of course, we can say that our
society is more evolved than Buddha’s society.
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