Doubts on avataras

Nityanaanda Gauraanga Hare Krishna!

Jai Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!

Jai Swami Gaurangapada!

All glories to the Guru Sampradaya!

Respected Swamiji and all Vaishnavas,

   Please accept my respectful obeisances! I have a few doubts on the avataras of the Lord and their presence in Vaikuntha.

   
1. I have heard that the, Narasimha, Varaha, Matsya, Buddha, etc.etc. are lila avataras for the material world only. In the spiritual world, do they exist in the same form, or do they have the Visnu form?
   
2. Does Kalki, Rsabhadeva etc fall in the same category as above?
   
3. Does Rama appear many times in one day of Brahma? Because there are sages (e.g. Lomasha muni) who claim to have seen 10 or so Rama avataras?
   
4. Does Caitanya Mahaprabhu come to earth immediately after Lord Krishna's descent?
   
5. Do the pastimes like Rama killing Ravana happen only in the material world?
   
6. Also do those pastimes like killing demons change every time Rama and Krishna appear? Or is it that they happen with Variations? Like Krishna killing Kamsa in different ways?
   
7. We have heard different stories of Krishna killing Kamsa, so does this mean that the same Kamsa appears every time or a different jiva becomes Kamsa in every avatara?
   
8. Regarding Sakti-avesha avataras, Srila Prabhupada writes that they are in the jiva category, but still they are addressed with the prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Why is that?
   
9. Are these prayers applicable only to those qualities of the Supreme Lord which manifest and not others?
   
10. Strictly speaking how is a saktyavesha avatara considered an incarnation of the Lord?
   
11. Are there some qualities which cannot be found in the Sakti-avesha avataras?
   
12. What is exactly meant by the statement, "The Lord's incarnations are fully complete, but differ in the qualities they manifest." Does this mean that the other avataras are capable of manifesting all the qualities but they don't or does it mean they can manifest only a part of His potency?
   
13. Please clarify the meaning of Complete (purnam) in the context of the above (no.12). As in Isopanishad invocation (om purnamadhah purnamidam.....)
   
14. In Pandharpur, the devotees of the Tukarama varkari sampradaya claim that Jnaneshwara is Lord Visnu and his brothers were Brahma and Siva? But Jnaneswara wrote on the Sankaracharya commentaries to Bhagavad Gita, etc and preached Advaita - vada.
   
15. We know that Mahaprabhu is the incarnation mentioned in the scriptures, but is Jnaneswara an incarnation?

 

Please dispel our ignorance,

Venkat and Srinath

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