Saktyavesa-avataras (Books)

śaktyāveśa-avatāras

Yamarāja, el gran controlador de la vida después de la muerte, decide los destinos que tendrán las entidades vivientes en sus siguientes vidas. Se encuentra sin duda entre los más íntimos representantes del Señor. Los puestos íntimos de esa naturaleza se ofrecen a grandes devotos del Señor que están al mismo nivel que Sus compañeros eternos del cielo espiritual. Y debido a que Vidura se contaba entre ellos, el Señor, mientras regresaba a Vaikuṇṭha, le dejó instrucciones con Maitreya Muni. Por lo general, los compañeros eternos del Señor en el cielo espiritual no vienen al mundo material. Sin embargo, a veces vienen por orden del Señor, no para ejercer algún cargo administrativo, sino para relacionarse con el Señor en persona, o para propagar el mensaje de Dios en la sociedad humana. Representantes apoderados de esa índole reciben el nombre de śaktyāveśa-avatāras, es decir, encarnaciones dotadas de un poder trascendental de representación.

Yuga-avataras

Guna-avataras

SB Canto 3

Such empowered representatives are called śaktyāveśa-avatāras, or incarnations invested with transcendental power of attorney.

SB 3.5.21, Purport:

SB Canto 4

Such incarnations, empowered for specific purposes, are known as śaktyāveśa-avatāras.

SB 4.15.6, Purport:

He is without change, and he is an incarnation of the Supreme known as a śaktyāveśa-avatāra.

SB 4.16.19, Purport:

Being a śaktyāveśa-avatāra, empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Pṛthu Mahārāja did not change his spiritual position, and consequently there was no possibility of his viewing the material world as reality.

SB 4.16.19, Purport, Purport:

Pṛthu Mahārāja was a śaktyāveśa-avatāra incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu. Actually Pṛthu Mahārāja was a living entity, but he acquired specific powers from Lord Viṣṇu.

SB 4.19.3, Purport:

As explained before, these śaktyāveśa-avatāras are incarnations of Viṣṇu's power invested in a living entity.

SB 4.19.37, Purport:

When a living being is specifically empowered by the Supreme Lord to act for a particular purpose, he is called a śaktyāveśa-avatāra. Pṛthu Mahārāja was not only a śaktyāveśa-avatāra but also a great devotee.

SB 4.21.11, Purport:

Since Pṛthu Mahārāja was a power incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, śaktyāveśa-avatāra, why did he have to execute the regulative principles in order to become a prabhu?

SB 4.23.18, Purport:

SB Canto 6

After offering prayers to the Lord's personal expansions known as the svāṁśa and śaktyāveśa-avatāras, one should pray to the weapon.

SB 6.8 Summary:

SB Canto 8

Lord Brahmā creates, and Lord Śiva annihilates, but both Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva are incarnations of Lord Viṣṇu and are known as śaktyāveśa-avatāras.

SB 8.7.21, Purport:

SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13

Rāmānujācārya sometimes accepts Baladeva as a śaktyāveśa-avatāra, but Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has explained that Baladeva is an expansion of Kṛṣṇa and that a part of Baladeva is Saṅkarṣaṇa.

SB 10.1.69, Purport:

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Madhya-lila

The Lord also described the incarnations of God within the material world, incarnations such as the puruṣa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and śaktyāveśa-avatāras.

CC Madhya 20 Summary:

Vyāsadeva is a śaktyāveśa-avatāra of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

CC Madhya 20.122, Purport:

As the śaktyāveśa-avatāra Vyāsadeva, Kṛṣṇa teaches the conditioned soul through the Vedic literatures.

CC Madhya 20.123, Purport:
CC Madhya 20.246, Translation:
CC Madhya 20.246, Translation:
CC Madhya 20.366, Translation:

CC Madhya 20.367, Translation:

"There are unlimited śaktyāveśa-avatāras of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Let Me describe the chief among them."

CC Madhya 20.369, Translation:

"Some śaktyāveśa-avatāras are the four Kumāras, Nārada, Mahārāja Pṛthu and Paraśurāma. When a living being is empowered to act as Lord Brahmā, he is also considered a śaktyāveśa-avatāra."

CC Madhya 20.373, Translation:

"'Whenever the Lord is present in someone by portions of His various potencies, the living entity representing the Lord is called a śaktyāveśa-avatāra—that is, an incarnation invested with special power.'"

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Teachings of Lord Caitanya

As far as the āveśa-rūpa is concerned, when Kṛṣṇa empowers some suitable living entity to represent Him, that living entity is called āveśa-rūpa, or śaktyāveśa-avatāra.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 6:

There are six kinds of incarnations: (1) the puruṣa-avatāra, (2) the līlā-avatāra, (3) the guṇa-avatāra, (4) the manvantara-avatāra, (5) the yuga-avatāra, and (6) the śaktyāveśa-avatāra.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 7:

As far as the śaktyāveśa-avatāras are concerned, they include Kapila and Ṛṣabha, Ananta, Brahmā (sometimes the Lord Himself becomes Brahmā), Catuḥsana (the incarnation of knowledge), Nārada (the incarnation of devotional service), King Pṛthu (the incarnation of administrative power), and Paraśurāma (the incarnation who subdues evil principles).

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 7:

When Sanātana Gosvāmī tried to confirm Lord Caitanya's personal characteristics as being those of the incarnation of this age, Lord Caitanya Himself indirectly made the confirmation by simply saying, "Let us leave aside all these discussions and continue with a description of the śaktyāveśa-avatāras."

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 8:

When the Lord Himself comes, He is called sākṣāt, or a direct śaktyāveśa-avatāra, and when He empowers some living entity to represent Him that living entity is called an indirect or āveśa incarnation.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 8:

Renunciation Through Wisdom

When the Supreme Lord empowers a jīva with His divine potency so that the jīva can carry out some specific work, then that jīva is known as a śaktyāveśa avatāra.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 4.4:

BG Capítuloos 1-6

BG 4.8, Purport:

Hay varios tipos de avatāras, tales como los puruṣāvatāras, los guṇāvatāras, los līlāvatāras, los śakty-āveśa avatāras, los manvantara-avatāras y los yugāvatāras—todos aparecen cronológicamente en todos los universos. Pero el Señor Sri Kṛṣṇa es el Señor Primordial, y la fuente original de todos los avatāras. El Señor Śrī Kṛṣṇa desciende con el propósito específico de mitigar la ansiedad de los devotos puros, quienes están ansiosos por Verlo en Su original Pasatiempos en Vṛndāvana. Por lo tanto, el propósito principal de la avatāra Kṛṣṇa es satisfacer a sus devotos no aleados.

Saktyavesa-avataras (Books)