Page 45 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

(glory-grace forms); the Arca (the idols in the temples spots of Transcendent light to which any sincere seeker can go directly and offer himself or herself or seek refuge) and last but not least the Antaryamin - the form of the Self within the Guru and Beloved, a descent of the Divine From or Light in the heart of the Mystics, Alvars, Dasars and Nayanmars.
All these forms are important and must be fully known. They are the Forms of the Divine who makes us participate in the Divine Life both inside and outside, who grants, liberation from samsara and ignorance, and service of the eternal Truth and light.
Being unaware of this structure of the mystical, Prof. Haas finds inconsistencies in the Avatara-doctrine. He sees in it every view except the right one. The metabiology of the avataras is a western invention. The mystical is a personal view of reality and not an impersonal view. It is how the soul seeks and finds its highest truth and Self.
The ahistorical view may be that of the Mysticism of Identity. But identity is not always the poise of Spirit. Unity pervades and manifests multiplicity and gives meaning to them; so also multiplicity and difference reveal the richness of the unity and identity. Both are faces of mysticism. Mysticism reveals that the Divine must be embraced or sought after not from any one part of being or portion of experience but by all parts of one's being, the physical, mental, vital and supramental. All sheathes of organic existence should subserve the Divine, must be suffused with the Divine Light and truth, must ultimately be transformed by the same Ananda. So long as any portion of the organic existence or soul is left untouched by or unopened to the influx of the Divine, there will be conflict, disease, mortality. The Divine either has all or has nothing to do with a soul. All or none formula is true here, as elsewhere in Logic.
The ahistorical mystical view is more akin to what the late Nicholas Berdyeav, the renowned Russian Mystic - Christian Apologist, stated. Monism and mysticism are anthithetical, he said. The reason is not far to seek. Being can only be experienced as personal, and the Ultimate is experienced as the Personal 'more' or in Tagore's phrase "surplus". Further he rightly remarked also that the descent of the Divine is a fundamental historical event not in sense in which the world war II is a historical event