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Krishna as an Avatar · Letter 3

CWSA 28 · Letters on Yoga - I · p. 950

What was said* was that Krishna as a manifestation on earth opened the possibility of the Overmind consciousness here to men and stood for that, as Rama was the incarnation in mental Man. If Krishna was an overmind “God”, that means he was not an Incarnation, not the Divine, but somebody else who claimed to be the Divine—i.e. he was a god who somehow thought he was God.

The correspondent asked, “Why is it said that Krishna is an Overmind God?”—Ed.

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CWSA 28 · Letters on Yoga - I · Krishna as an Avatar [3] · p. 499

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