That control, which has passed through many different incarnations in the course of the last half-century, has been exercised since 1905 by a Railway Board of three members outside of, but subordinate to, the Government of India.
The conflict between Buddhist and Hindu theology might not have been irreconcilable, for Hinduism, as we know, was quite ready to admit Buddha himself into the privileged circle of its own gods as one of the incarnations of Vishnu.
It is difficult for us to put ourselves in the place of those who saw no underlying unity in the universe, no single principle to which it could all be referred, or who believed that the dumb animals were incarnations of the divine.
And accordingly the "descents" or incarnations of the deity have for their object, not so much the spiritual regeneration of man as the deliverance of the world from some material calamity threatening to overwhelm it.
The deities often came down in incarnations and mingled with their favorites and rescued the earth from evils.
Were we able to see this ego unveiled, it would also be possible to see just what blows of fate it must yet endure in this and future incarnations, as a result of its life in previous incarnations and the qualities acquired.
Now man, in the form in which he is at present evolving, makes his first appearance upon the fourth of the planetary incarnations which have been described, the Earth proper.
However, since the experiences of an individual vary according to whether he is incarnated as a woman or as a man, there are, as a rule, two incarnations within the time stated, one as a man and one as a woman.
The relationship of the four planetary incarnationspreviously mentioned, can here be only briefly sketched; for the events, the beings and their destiny on Saturn, Sun and Moon were in truth, just as varied as they are on the Earth itself.
Light is therefore thrown on the present constitution of man if his evolution is followed back to the far-remote past of the first of the planetary incarnations mentioned above.
If such was the case, the royal pair probably posed as the high priest and high priestess of the ancient goddess cult--the incarnations of the Great Mother and the son who displaced his sire.
A mock king may have been burned to perpetuate the ancient sacrifice of real kings, who were incarnations of the god.
Early rulers, indeed, were priest-kings--incarnations of the deity who owned the land and measured out the span of human life.
Banners were suspended around, with paintings of Lhassa, Teshoo Loombo, and various incarnations of Boodh.
In his incarnations of Rama and Krishna there are temples to Vishnu in large villages and towns.
And the list of the incarnations of Vishnu is not always the same, as in one list the incarnations are nearly all of the animal type and neither Parasurama, Rama nor Krishna appear.
Even the deities of which these areincarnations are never noticed.
Rama and Krishna, the heroes of the national epics, were represented as such incarnations of Vishnu and the songs of the heroes were reconstructed according to this idea.
His character for benevolence was in post-Vedic mythology developed in the doctrine of the Avatars ("descents" to earth) or incarnations which he assumed for the good of humanity.
Other Vishnuite Puranas of a late date are the Brahma, the Naradiya, the Vamana, and the Varaha, the latter two called after the Dwarf and the Boar incarnations of Vishnu.
In the Eastern World, Divine incarnations are taught in the Brahminical and other systems.
Lo, from its many incarnations it comes forth again, the immortal Race-Christ of the Ages!
Vishnu is the benign god who has resorted to many incarnations whereby he might free the world of demons who were worrying and destroying our race.
Mrs. Besant has even discovered that the ten incarnations of Vishnu are based on strict evolution principles and follow that order.
The incarnations of Vishnu are referred to in their Shastras “as consequences of deeds which the god himself had performed.
Origen declares that the hardening of the heart was caused by God so that Pharaoh would more readily learn the effect of evil, so that in his future incarnations he might profit by his bitter experience.
These are the incarnations of Vichenou, or metamorphoses of the sun.
But Buddhism is closely connected with the theory of incarnations and the development of the Advaita philosophy, and in the externals of religion, in rites, ceremonies and institutions, its influence was great and lasting.
The family is at present represented by about a hundred males who are accepted as incarnations and receive the title of Maharaja.
The incarnationsof Vishṇu are most commonly given as ten[356] but are not all of the same character.
He appears in human incarnations and is known as well or better by these incarnations than in his original form.
The Hindu deities and their incarnations are all dead: God was not in any of them.
In the interval between incarnations it so assimilates the experiences of the last physical life that it comes to rebirth with added abilities which enable it to take higher and more difficult lessons than it could previously master.
Indeed, the close student of the subject would be very much surprised if we could normally remember, because he does not get far until he sees, not only why we do not remember past incarnations but why we should not remember them.
In all of these incarnations we steadily evolve intellect and strengthen all previously acquired virtues.
The failure to remember previous incarnations will be more clearly understood if we now give some thought to the fact that the personality here on the material plane is only a fragment of the whole consciousness of the soul.
But if we give him many incarnations to develop along certain lines he can become a genius of a given type.
The soul that works strenuously at building up a certain faculty through many incarnations naturally develops qualities in the causal body that shine out brilliantly upon its return to a physical body and we have the genius.
The average human being is in the elementary grades, with scores of incarnations ahead of him before he will be in a position even to take advantage of his opportunities and thus make fairly rapid progress.
Some people will have only two or three hundred years between incarnations while others may have six or seven centuries and still others a much longer period.
Because one worked hard at life's problems in past incarnations while the other led a butterfly existence and merely amused himself.
As the memory of childhood lives in the brain of the man, so the memory of all the hundreds of incarnations persists in the causal body and is an eternal possession of the ego.
The rule seems to be that ordinarily there are not less than three nor more than seven successive incarnations in one sex, and then the ego begins to express itself through a body of the other sex.
Everything is periodic: Buddhas, Jinas and incarnations of all sorts are all members of a series.
They are commonly spoken of by some title signifying the Lord: thus Siva is Îśvara, Vishnu and his incarnations are more often styled Bhagavad.
There are twenty-four Jain Tîrthankaras and according to some accounts twenty-four incarnations of Vishnu.
Many teachers in India have been revered as partial incarnations of Vishnu and most of the higher clergy in Tibet claim to be Buddhas or Bodhisattvas manifest in the flesh.
Râma and Krishna seem to be idealized and deified portraits of ancient heroes, who came to be regarded as incarnations of the Almighty.
The same idea meets us in the fourteen Manus, the incarnations of Vishnu, and the series of Buddhas who preceded Gotama.
Smith, and is therefore responsible for her claim to these incarnationsprevious to that which she now undergoes or enjoys.
That is the broad question; but it is complicated here by a subsidiary question: whether, namely, any previous incarnations of Mlle.
In another, theincarnations were the eel, the octopus, and turtle.
The sea eel, octopus, and mullet were incarnations of this god.
The Fai, or stinging ray fish, and also the mullet were incarnations of Moso the strong in another family.
They are considered to be incarnations of the god, and divine honours are paid to them.
Most Brahmans belong to a sect worshipping especially Siva or Vishnu, or Rama and Krishna, the incarnations of the latter god, or Sakti, the female principle of energy of Siva.
The "Ocean of Love" gives a full account of the various incarnations of Krishna, the favourite divinity of the Hindoos, and opens with the scene of his birth.
Supreme Being, by whom all things are composed, they introduce a variety of incarnations and divinities almost innumerable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incarnations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
