Re: Vishnu incarnations
Namaste Seeker,
I am sure Lord Vishnu will guide you in everything. There is no harm in the views that you hold.
Buddha is anyway considered a Vishnu avatar by many (I don't). Gandhi - no Hindu has ever considered him an avatar.
Avatar is all-knowing, so even if he is limited in his manifestation it is so for the his own charted purpose.
So someone like Newton - even if we give some leeway though his domain is limited to the material knowledge - has already been superseded by others in the field, more prominently Einstein. But I share your admiration of him.
An Avatar of Lord Vishnu brings a marked change in the course of humanity - on the level of consciousness, the material-progess follows.
And there is no such thing as apocalypse in Hinduism. Lord will come to punish the evil only.
Things to remember:
1. Life = yajña
2. Depth of Āstika knowledge is directly proportional
to the richness of Sanskrit it is written in
3. Āstika = Bhārata ("east") / Ārya ("west")
4. Varṇa = tripartite division of Vedic polity
5. r = c. x²
where,
r = realisation
constant c = intelligence
variable x = bhakti
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