- "Avatara"
- is
- a
- collection
- of
- twenty-eight
- essays
- describing
- bhakti-yoga,
- the
- science
- of
- self-realization,
- and
- Krishna
- consciousness
- based
- off
- select
- verses
- from
- sacred
- Vedic
- texts
- like
- Bhagavad-gita,
- Ramayana,
- Chaitanya
- Charitamrita,
- and
- others."The
- avatara,
- or
- incarnation
- of
- Godhead,
- descends
- from
- the
- kingdom
- of
- God
- for
- material
- manifestation.
- And
- the
- particular
- form
- of
- the
- Personality
- of
- Godhead
- who
- so
- descends
- is
- called
- an
- incarnation,
- or
- avatara.
- Such
- incarnations
- are
- situated
- in
- the
- spiritual
- world,
- the
- kingdom
- of
- God.
- When
- they
- descend
- to
- the
- material
- creation,
- they
- assume
- the
- name
- avatara."
- (Chaitanya
- Charitamrita,
- Madhya 20.263-264)
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