Prabhupada, New York, December 31, 1966: […] Avatara, incarnation, comes to glorify the eternal existence of the Supreme Lord. So any avatara, any incarnation, he comes to glorify that, “There is spiritual kingdom, there is God, and I have come to reclaim you to back to Godhead, back to home.”
This is the symptom. So therefore, by that symptom, we accept Lord Jesus Christ as saktyavesa avatara, or Hazrat Muhammad, he’s also. Because these two religious leaders of the world, they preached about the glorification of the Supreme Lord.
And they sacrificed everything for preaching the glories of the Lord. Therefore… And their influence and their followers, there are… These are the symptoms by which we can understand that Jesus Christ and Hazrat Muhammad was, were saktyavesa avataras.
So far Buddha is concerned, he’s also considered saktyavesa avatara. He preached this nirvana philosophy. Although he did not speak about God, because it is considered that he was himself God, but the people amongst whom he preached, they were mostly atheistic people; therefore he did not preach about God.
But he did not deny also. He simply wanted to make extinction of this present worldly activities. That was, yes… Nirvana. And he represented the sacrifice of renouncement. He…, you may remember that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, out of His six opulences, one opulence is renouncement.
So Lord Buddha’s life is renouncement. He was prince. He, he was in a very young time. He renounced the world and underwent severe penances. These are the symptoms by which we can understand that he’s also saktyavesa avatara. And the Bhagavad-gita you’ll find, yad yad vibhutimat sattvam mama tejo-’msa-sambhavam. Anyone, not only Lord Buddha or others, but anyone, Lord, in the Bhagavad-gita it is stated, anyone who has got some extraordinary power, uncommon power, he’s to be considered vibhu.
Saktyavesa avatara, there are two kinds, one directly empowered for particular mission, comes from the transcendental spiritual sky, and others, those who are in this material world, but they have got some specific power, uncommon power, not found in ordinary man. They are called vibhuti. This vibhuti is explained in the Bhagavad-gita: yad yad vibhutimat sattvam mama tejo-’msa sambhavam. That is out of the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
sanakadye ‘jnana’-sakti, narade sakti ‘bhakti’ brahmaya ‘srsti’-sakti, anante ‘bhu-dharana’-sakti
Now, so far the principal saktyavesa avataras are concerned, as mentioned by Lord Caitanya, now, what are the manifestation of opulences in each of these saktyavesa avataras?
He says that sanakadye, the Kumaras, the four Kumaras—Sanaka, Sanatana, Sananda, Sanat-kumara—these four Kumaras, they were vastly learned, and they first they preached the philosophical way of understanding the Absolute Truth. Sanakadye. Later on, they become devoted, devotees, and they have got a sampradaya, or party, they are called Nimbarka-sampradaya. Sanakadye ‘jnana’-sakti. Now we have analyzed that the Supreme Lord has the opulence of knowledge, full knowledge. Full Lecture
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