Siddha and Avatar

When you see God as a father, you will want to demand and take from Him.But when you see God as a child, you have no demands.
The common man wakes up to the pain and suffering in his life and wants to be free from it.And he looks for the super power of creation to free him from the clutches of the world. Themore he looks at the misery and shortcomings in his life, the farther away he feels from theDivinity, which is his very nature. And his heart yearns for some sort of communication from theother side. For time immemorial man has been striving to lessen this gap between himself andGod. There are two ways to do this: one is to elevate mankind towards Divinity — this is calledSiddha, one who has attained perfection and the second is to bring God to human level —Avatar, one who is not striving for perfection. Divinity has manifested itself for the sake ofmankind. Man rising up to God is Siddha; God coming down, because he cares for you, isAvatar. To communicate directly with devotees, God comes in the form of Avatar.Avatar is the humaneness where you can get a glimpse of Divinity. In the Puranas, all thedevas are depicted with human emotions and tendencies. They do normal things — getupset, angry, are in love, etc. Rama and Krishna went through all the experiences of thehuman mind just to make you understand that God is not too far away from you, but oneamong you. Don’t look for the supernatural in Avatar — then the whole purpose of comingclose to humans is defeated. The expression of God’s love for you on the most understandablehuman level is Avatar.