When and Why Does the Lord Incarnate?

The Supreme, though unborn and changeless, on account of His unquestioned freedom, by His own perfect free will, takes upon Himself the conditioning of the matter, and manifests Himself in a particular embodiment in the world, for serving the deluded generation of that time.To the Lord, His ‘ignorance’ is but a pose assumed, not a fact lived. He does not come into being as others do, compelled by His karma, to live here in the world under the thralldom of nature.A driver is bound by his duty to the vehicle, while the owner of the vehicle is the lord of it. He uses the vehicle for his purposes, and whenever he reaches his immediate destination, he leaves the vehicle with all freedom and enjoys his own independent activities. But, the poor driver, bound to the vehicle, will have to guard it against intruders and serve the vehicle as its servant. The Lord uses the matter envelopments and their limitations as a convenience and as a set of necessary tools in His game of protecting the creation.Whenever there is a decay of righteousness, meaning when the majority of the members of the community do not pursue life in their full dignity as intelligent social beings, instead there is a conquest of the world by a herd of biped animals, the Infinite, from time to time, wears the ‘matter-apparel’, to give a fillip to the existing nobler values along with total elimination of the wicked.He appears on the scene of activity like the owner of an estate, who now and then puts on his gumboots to inspect and reorganize his estate. Even while the owner is on the work spot, in the burning sun, among his workers, he is conscious of his lordship over, and ownership of the entire estate.Similarly, the Supreme, which is the substratum for the pluralistic world, puts on the body gown and, as it were, walks into the dusky atmosphere of the immoral life of mankind, for the purpose of reorganizing and conducting a thorough spring cleaning of the bosom of the man.A mortal becomes victimized by his ignorance, while the Lord is the Master of His māyā.