Vedanta - Discussion Forum I (introductory))

[Sunder]

<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Nov 2 2004, 02:54 AM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Nov 2 2004, 02:54 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Thanks Sunder guroo.

One more interesting thing -> even Kapila is considered an avatara (amongst the 24 avataras) !!

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With Kapila muni, it is easy. In Srimad Bhagavad Geetha, Sri Bhagavaan says (10:26) that of the Siddhas he is Kapila muni. This need not be the same Kapila as the author of Samkhya Philosophy. For there was a Kapila muni in Kapilaranya (California?) when Sagara's 60,000 sons dug up the earth to find the Sacrificial horse.

Kapila's Samkhya falls within the framework of the Vedas, and hence is an Asthika darshana.

(In reality, you and I are also incarnations of the same Supreme Self.) <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Thus, as a Vedantin, there is no conflict whenever someone says Buddha, Kapila etc incarnations of Vishnu.