Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
7. The Purpose of Avatarhood
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Yuge yuge1 may be used in a general sense, as in English “from age to age” and not refer technically to the yuga proper according to the Puranic computation. But the bahūni2 has an air of referring to very numerous lives especially when coupled with tava ca. In that case all these many births could not be full incarnations,– many may have been merely Vibhuti births carrying on the thread from incarnation to incarnation. About Arjuna’s accompanying him in each and every birth, nothing is said, but it would not be likely – many, of course.
1 About his many births Krishna says in the Gita, sambhavāmi yuge yuge. See Gita, Ch. IV, 8.
2 Bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava cārjuna. Gita, Ch. IV, 5.