Gods and Their Incarnations

An Avatar, also called a Saviour, is a person who rescues or saves mankind from deterioration. He saves the earth by his grace. Whenever virtue subsides and wickedness prevails, and whenever unrighteousness rises or Adharma starts, and whenever there is destruction and unrest in this world, our Divine Mother incarnates herself. Adhiparasakthi descends to this physical plane to establish the virtues of Dharmas and to save the good and destroy the evil. When she descends to the physical plane and takes a human form she is known as an avatar.

An avatar is also known as the Messenger of the Divine because the avatar transmits pure and unselfish love from the divine power to mankind. He gives a taste of the unadulterated sweet nectar of heavenly love to the souls scorched by the fire of worldliness and pain. The omnipotent Mother Adhiparasakthi, who is Bliss, Truth and Consciousness, bestows special grace and manifests herself as a common person during her Avatar life. In this period, the divine goddess acquires a human form and incarnates herself so as to set an example before us in this life. It is her speciality that, in spite of being omnipresent and boundless, she becomes a tiny human