The Avatar based on mythology is a religious fable.+

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

The universe is nothing but matter. The matter is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Spirit. Just like ice is created out of water, the universe is created out of the Soul, the Spirit, which is present in the form of consciousness. The ice is not different from the water in the same way the universe is not different from consciousness.

The universe is the Avatara of the Soul, God. The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of God in truth. The universe ceases to exist without God in truth, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness. Without the universe, God alone exists.

Meher Baba: ~ “When reality appears, this ignorance, which one thinks as reality, becomes unreal.

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, which is born out of the Spirit is Spirit. Like gold is a permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the universe is born out of the Spirit, which is Spirit in its essence.

Meher Baba says:~    Unless and until ignorance is removed and Knowledge is gained ... the Knowledge whereby the Divine Life is experienced and lived . . . everything pertaining to the spiritual seems paradoxical... God, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is false. In experience, what exists for us does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists. 

Meher Baba said: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization."  

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion. 

Gnani and Illusion.

A King who was greatly incensed at the wisdom taught by Gnani that everything here below is an illusion? He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Gnani to his palace. That Gnani went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world is an illusion.

The king had arranged to let loose a hungry lion against Gnani. The beast rushed at Gnani who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the lion is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Gnani in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’

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Similarly, whatever takes place in this world, in which you exist, is an illusion. The Avatar based on mythology is a religious fable. God is not an individual. Avatar belongs to the domain of form, time, and space whereas God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The world in which you exist is created out of God and God is present in the form of consciousness. Thus everything is created out of God, thus all animate and inanimate things of the world are nothing but God. It is foolish to say only some human being is an Avatar the whole illusory creation is the Avatar of God. 

Only those who have realized the body is not the Self and the Self as the 'Self', like Meher Baba, can say of the Avatar because his vision of the world is Soulcentric. 

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In mystical realization, they call a Self-realized person an Avatar.  In spiritualistic realization, they call the Self-realized person as Gnani. A Gnani is one, who is fully aware of the fact that the Self is not the form but Self is formless consciousness, and he considers his body and his experience of the world as an illusion created out of the Soul or  consciousness

Righteousness, peace, and love to divinity are necessary within the dualistic illusion or Maya. Righteousness, peace, and love for divinity are created out of consciousness. Without consciousness, there is no Righteousness, no peace, and no love. Realizing the consciousness as the ultimate truth is truth realization.

Righteousness, peace, and love to divinity are necessary for practical life within the practical world, but they are no qualification for truth realization.

A Gnani's vision of the world, in which he exists, is, beyond time and space, embracing the Soul, ultimate reality. The universe in which you exist is within the Soul, the Self.

Gnani observes the reality hidden by the dualistic illusion (world) as it is in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Self- Knowledge is only true knowledge not the absence of duality. Self -Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or universe.

A Gnani is the one who has realized the universe in which he exists is nothing but the consciousness. Self-awareness is unique. It cannot be experienced because it is prior to any experience. It is possible only by the realization of the knowledge of the Infinite."

A Gnani sees only unity in diversity, just like a goldsmith estimating the gold in various items of jewelry sees only gold. When one identifies the Self with the form then only the form, time and space are present. But when one transcends form, time, and space the duality never remains as reality.

The world in which you exist is not separate from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness because the world in which you exist is an illusion created out of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar