Adi Da Love Ananda:
"......However, the larger (and ancient) “Avatar” tradition itself, which is prepared to acknowledge and receive a Divine “Avatar” (or a true God- Man) at any place or time, is a living, and authentic, tradition. And, in the context of that living, authentic tradition, Meher Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who, along with such others as Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, and Ramana Maharshi, is believed, by many, to be a Divine Avatar of the modern era.
Even outside of their own Circle of devotees, all true Spiritual Masters should be honored as Real-God-Realizers and Real-God-Revealers (each in their own unique manner or stage or degree). The true devotee necessarily (and rightly) Sees the Divine most fully and directly in his or her own Spiritual Master, but every such devotee should (by Virtue of that Vision or Darshan) See the Divine also Present in all other beings (including the Spiritual Masters of other devotees).
The degree of Realization of a Spiritual Master is Revealed only to the degrees of Real-God-Realization (and of ecstatic, and, necessarily, self-transcending, Real-God-Communion) in the case of those who are the practicing devotees of (or who at least sympathetically respond to) that Spiritual Master (or, otherwise, in the case of any others who are themselves Spiritual Masters, of one or another degree, capable of discerning the Signs exhibited by other Spiritual Masters of either the same degree or any lesser degree).
Therefore, the process of discerning the degree of Realization in the case of any Spiritual Master is a Paradox associated with actual practice (and Realization) of the Spiritual Way, and the non-sympathetic observer is in no position to make a proper (and, necessarily, devotional, or even already Real-God-Realized) judgment in that particular matter. Nevertheless, all intelligent and good-hearted people can (and should) certainly feel and honor the Good Heart in all true Spiritual Masters of devotees.”
Avataric periods are the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new experience of life not merely for a few, but for all. Qualities of energy and awareness, which had been used and enjoyed by only a few advanced souls, are then made available for all humanity. Life, as a whole, is lifted to a higher level of consciousness and geared to a new rate of energy. The transition from sensation to reason was one such step; the transition from reason to intuition will be another. In intuition the opposites are resolved.
Meher Baba –Chapter 7 – Avatar – God to Man, Man to God
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