Shloka : 29

कृष्णकृष्णावताराणां खण्डनं यत्र युक्तिभि: ।

कृतं स्यात्तानि शास्त्राणि न मान्यानि कदाचन ॥ 29 ॥

અને જે શાસ્ત્રને વિષે શ્રીકૃષ્ણભગવાન તથા શ્રીકૃષ્ણ ભગવાનના જે વરાહાદિક અવતાર, તેમનું યુક્તિએ કરીને ખંડન કર્યું હોય, એવાં જે શાસ્ત્ર તે ક્યારેય ન માનવાં અને ન સાંભળવાં. ॥ 29 ॥

And the scriptures, which deny Shri Krishna Bhagwan and the incarnations of Shri Krishna Bhagwan like Varah etc. through logical theories, should not be followed and listened to. || 29 ||

Commentary

In this Shloka, Shri Krishna and the incarnations of Shri Krishna have been mentioned. Here, 'Krishna' means the Supreme God Shri Swaminarayan Bhagwan. Now, there are three types incarnations or manifestations of Shri Swaminarayan Bhagwan. They are Sankalp Avtar, Mukta Avtar, and Aishwaryavesh Avtar. Shriji Maharaj used to appear in front of His devotees in their medita­tive state as Nar-Narayan, Laxmi-Narayan, Radha-Krishna etc. as well as, in the form of Chaturbhuja. These type of manifestations of Shri Hari should be considered as Sankalp Avtar. There is no difference between Sankalp Avtar of Shree Hari and His divine form. But there is a vast difference between the incarnations like Shri Krishna and Nar-Narayan mentioned in Shreemad Bhagwat etc. scriptures and the Supreme God Shri Swaminarayan Mahaprab­hu. A devotee, who renounces the desires of achieving (spiritual) power and splendour i.e. Aishwarya and worships God, visualiz­ing himself as spiritual soul i.e. Brahm, becomes like God Him­self i.e. he attains unity with the divine form of the Supreme God. Such devotee is known as Mukta. Such Mukta manifests himself on this earth from the idol of God i.e. from the divine form of the Supreme God. These types of manifestations of Shree Hari should be considered as Mukta Avtar. A devotee, who is desirous of (spiritual) power and splendour i.e. Aishwarya manifests as Brahma, Shiv, Shukji, Narad, Prakriti Purush, Mool Purush, Brahm and Akshar these types of manifestation of Shree Hari should be considered as Aishwaryavesh Avtar. Thus, the attributes and splendour of Shree Hari manifest as Aishwaryavesh Avtar. The scriptures, which deny the existence of Shree Hari and His three types of manifestations through logical theories, should not be followed. The Supreme God Shri Swaminarayan Bhagwan exists as an eternally personified self-luminous, divine form and He is the creator, sustainer and destroyer of infinite number of universes i.e. Anant Koti Brahmanda. These scriptures, are said to deny Him, which describe Him as formless and non-doer i.e. Arup and Akarta and establish that Kaal, Maya, Purush, Prakriti, Karm etc. fun­ction independently on their own without the support or involve­ment of Shri Hari.

Moreover, the term to deny logically means the arguments or theory such as: If Parbrahm i.e. the Ultimate Supreme Being is Sakar i.e. in personified, divine form then how is it possible for Brahm i.e. Supreme Being to be a self-luminous, formless exist­ence? Also the ultimate Supreme God is inherently present in all living-non living, physical-spiritual existence. These are all contradictory facts. Therefore, the Ultimate Supreme God is Nirakar i.e. formless. Such arguments based on the theories of scriptures like Shruti, Smriti etc. which deny the personified, divine form of Shri Hari. The scrip­tures which supports the theories similar to above mentioned example should not be studied or followed. Because the ultimate supreme God Shri Swaminarayan Mahaprabhu is eternally personi­fied, self-luminous divine form. He is the cause of all the causes and doer of all. The people, who describe Him as formless and non-doer, are either ignorant or miscreants. Omnipotent and most powerful Shriji Maharaj creates, sustains and destroys all the Universes through His own will, independently i.e. He is the cause of 'Kaal', 'Karm', 'Swabhav', 'Maya' and 'Purush'. Hence, He is called 'Karta' i.e. doer of all. When Shri Hari Himself does not perform these functions, but through His intent and inspiration, He makes others perform all these functions. This could be con­sidered as His non-doer i.e. Akarta attribute. Moreover, Shri Hari is also known as 'Anyathakarta' because without any involvement of Kaal, Maya etc. entities, Shri Hari is able to create, sustain and destroy infinite number of Universes on His own.

And if Shri Hari has been described as formless that is because His divine form has no attributes of Maya. But it should not be interpreted as formlessness. The Supreme God has the brilliance of crores of sun which is spreading everywhere. Therefore, He has been described as self-luminous. And those, who worship His brilliance, can not see His divine form. They perceive His bril­liance and splendour. Therefore, they describe Him as only lu­minous form. Moreover, the Supreme God is 'Nirguna', because He is without the attributes of Maya and He is 'Saguna', because He has eternal, divine, liberrating attributes. He is present every­where through His brilliance, therefore He is all pervading or omnipresent. Therefore Shri Hari should not be considered as formless or non-doer and the scriptures, which describe Him as formless or non-doer should not be followed.