Appreciating member Aishu for posting the precise meaning of epithets used in our texts😊,
I would like to share something though this is out of the main topic.
Basically considering God(not gods as god is one) as Nirakar,nirvikar,nirgun,nishkalmash,nishkalank etc.,who is beyond material world yet behind everything if you remove its name and shape is the one and only Nitya Kishore/Nitya Kishori(whatever you like to say coz this is beyond gender).It is the only perfect thing existing and is the only real as said in our holy texts.
The soul, in essence the reflection of Spirit, never undergoes the pangs of birth nor the throes of death. Nor having once been projected from the womb of immortal Spirit will Soul, on return to Spirit, lose its individuality; having entered the portals of nativity, its existence will never cease. In all its bodily births, the Spirit-soul never felt birth; it exists everlastingly, untouched by the maya-magic fingers of change. It is ever the same - "now, past, future" - as it has always been; ageless, unchanged, since its immemorial beginnings. The deathless soul dwelling in the destructible body is ever constant through all cycles of bodily disintegrations.
The difference between soul and Spirit is this: The Spirit is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new omnipresent Joy; the soul is the individualized reflection of ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, confined within the body of each and every being.
Souls are the radiating rays of Spirit. Hence, they are coexistent with Spirit and of the same essence, as the sun and its rays are one. Though incarnate, the soul belongs to the noumenal region, which changes not. All material forms belong to the regions of phenomena; their very nature being alienated from Spirit, they change constantly. Phenomena arise from and are inseparably linked with noumena; but the latter, being of Spirit, are immutable and transcendent. The outer surface of the soul's consciousness that is cloaked with the instrumentalities of the ego, mind, and senses undergoes the permutations of Nature, but the soul's essence remains inviolable.
Considering the word 'Kishore',it has different meanings like young,inexperienced and Genuine.In this case it is preferably 'Genuine' because the only one which is genuine and always real is all - prevading god.The body and other are temporary and unreal.Unmistakably this term 'Kishore' is used to describe the infinite being who manifests in various forms with the help of his power maya/shakti.
{This Self is never born nor does it ever perish; nor having come into existence will it again cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever-same (unaffected by the usual processes associated with time). It is not slain when the body is killed."The Bhagavad Gita II:20}
We all both living and non-living are the manifestations of lord but we donot consider ourselves as an 'Avatar' coz we never realized that we are an avatar of god unlike Shri Ram,Maa Sita ,Shri Krishna,Vyasa,sages,yogis etc.Avatar refers to a soul freed from maya (delusion) and comes by the will of God back into manifested existence to help others.It is noway different from the one and only eternal god and has all the above mentioned traits.A soul awake in omnipresent Spirit loses his delusive nightmares of births and deaths.This makes a perfect avatar.Traditionally, the word avatar is sometimes limited to few incarnations.But if we go through the scriptures,we can find some references.
Eg."Vyasaya Vishnu roopaya Vyasa roopaya Vishnave!!",. which means, Veda Vyasa is none other than, Lord Vishnu himself.
Regarding development, male facial hair sprouts at maturity.Nothing unusual it coincides with emergence of a suite of "adult" characteristics, such as increase in height and deepening of the voice.
Controlling certain life processes.
Biologically impossible to the common man, not to the yogi or any avatar who has learnt how to control every inch in his body. So what of facial hair?They have the control be it the universe or their own body,it is upto them.
These physical changes have nothing to do with their divinity.😊
Edited by SRUJAconscience - 10 years ago
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