Namaste
No. This is not a realized person, and not in the picture for our thread. I used the word 'partial' for avatArs. The aMsha avatArs, vibhUtis, shaktyAvesha or Avesha avatArs - beings empowered by the Supreme Lord, but not the Supreme Lord in entirity.
These beings are fully Self-realized of course, else they would never be in the avatAr category.
Actually, I have an answer to that from Shri KRshNa Himself
"I come cloaked in different suits, that is why all My powers are not manifest in that form."
(All powers not being manifest in one avatar form is different from KRshNa choosing not to manifest power (aishwarya) in front of Mother Yashoda.)
This is what I am focusing on, thank you. If these people are Bramhan, pUrNa Bramhan, then should they or should they not also
potentially manifest as Parameshvar? If Bramhan is the source of omni-science-potence-presence, then these beings, fully realized acc. to you, must automatically have/be that - YES? or NO?
If YES, then advaita and
tUriyAvasthA is a theoretical never-reachable utopian goal for earthlings, and they had better have/develop bhakti - devotion towards Parameshwar.
If NO (which is how I initially looked at advaita) then advaita is talking about
Atma-bhAv, tadAtmictA.
"We are ONE IN SPIRIT. You are Me, You are My AtmA just as I am Yours. The reason we are one, is because you are very very very dear to Me. As a result, you care not for any selfish individual endeavors/existence independant of Me" This is why the basis of advaita bhAv (which I suspect is the bhAv, sentiment, nishThA alone), is
L O V E. U N I V E R S A L L O V E. In the bhakti language it is P R E M
This is Bramhan-nishThA. Again, for this also, there had better be devotion to Parameshwar, because it is His Grace that can bring this state. YashodA could not tie little DAmodar (KRshNa) with the rope - it was always 2 fingers short, no matter what she did - she kept getting longer and longer ropes. It was only when KRshNa (appearing as a 2 yr old) finally decided to shower His causeless mercy on her, only because of her extreme pure love for Him, did the rope fit.
I think the following explains it somewhat, but HLK may have to crease out some ambiguities.
Thanks for this, HLK.
(Feedback - The statements in red give rise to ambiguity/conflict at least for learning readers. They speak an advanced language which is best understood internally in
parA not
externally in vaikharI because vaikhari vANI gives rise to six blind men and the elephant )
Again, the last statement, "Upanishads talk about unity to discard plurality which is an illusion" can be best understood in terms of patriotic oneness, community spirit, universal brotherhood and oneness etc. Because the goal of the upanishads is to develop
the spirit, the attitude of oneness - sama darshana.
vAsudeva sarvam iti
om namo bhagavate vAsudevAya ~
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