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Rāmāyaṇa



                            abhyutthānam adharmasya
                               tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham
                            paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ
                               vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
                            dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
                               sambhavāmi yuge yuge
             “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious
          practice, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time
          I descend Myself. To deliver the pious and to annihilate the
          miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion,
          I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.”
             When the Supreme Lord comes to this world, He does
          so out of His own sweet will. Unlike the conditioned souls,
          He is not forced to take a body according to previous karma.
          Being far above the laws of karma, and never even slightly
          under their jurisdiction, the Supreme Lord descends in His
          eternal sac-cid-ānanda form.
             “Although  I  am  unborn  and  My  transcendental  body
          never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living
          entities,  I  still  appear  in  every  millennium  in  My  original
          transcendental form.” (Bhagavad-gītā 4.6)

             When  the  Supreme  Lord  descends,  He  shows  His
          sublime  nature  by  performing  incomparable  activities.
          When  He  came  in  His  original  form  as  Kṛṣṇa,  He  killed
          many  apparently  unconquerable  demons;  held  the
          Govardhana  Hill  on  the  tip  of  His  little  finger  for  seven
          days (when He was apparently only a small child); made the
          sun rise again after it had set; and took His friend Arjuna
          on a journey Introduction beyond the edge of the universe.
          When  He  came  as Vāmanadeva,  He  assumed  the  form  of
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