various human species that live there all serve a special purpose of the Lord, which is mentioned in the scriptures He has given us. But, inflated with pride by their meager success, the materialists sometimes defy the very existence of God. And Ravana was one of them: he wanted to send simple earthlings on the Edenic planets, where Indra reigns, using material means, without taking into account the qualities required to reach them. He wanted to build a staircase leading directly to the Edenic planets, to prevent people from having to perform all the virtuous acts required to access it. And this is only one of the plans he had developed in order to overcome the laws of God. He even challenged the authority of Sri Rama, who is none other than the Lord Himself, by abducting his wife, Sita. But Rama, thus filling the expectation of celestial beings, took up Ravana's challenge and chastised the ungodly. The story of his exploits at that time is the subject of the famous Ramayana.

Sri Rama, or Ramacandra, in his capacity as Supreme Lord, was capable of exploits that no man, including the mighty Ravana, who had attained such a high degree of material perfection, could accomplish. He built on the Indian Ocean a royal bridge, with floating stones. Modern scholars have researched weightlessness, but they can not remove the weight of any object under any circumstances. However, because the weightlessness is created by the Lord, which makes the huge planets float in space, He could also, on Earth, deprive rocks of their weight, allowing to build a bridge without support. This is the power of God.

The Lord appeared as Sri Balarama and Sri Krishna in the Virsnis family [Yadu dynasty], thus removing the burden of the world.

Balarama and Krishna are the original forms of God. Lord Krishna is not an emanation of the Supreme Avatar, but the Supreme Lord in his original form, and Balarama is his first full emanation. From Baladeva, or Balarama, comes the first series of plenary emanations, counting Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna. Sri Krishna is Vasudeva, and Balarama is Sankarsana.

Then at the beginning of the age of Kali, the age of discord and quarrels, the present age, the Lord will appear in the form of Buddha, the son of Anjana, in the district of Gaya, for the sole purpose of to mislead those who envy the faithful.

Buddha, a mighty Avatar, appeared in the Gaya district (Bihar) as the son of Anjana. He spread his own interpretation of the concept of non-violence and even rejected the Vedas-authorized animal sacrifices. At the time of his advent, the mass of men poured into atheism and showed an immoderate taste for the consumption of animal flesh. Under the pretext of performing Vedic sacrifices, each house was practically turned into a slaughterhouse, and the slaughter of animals was given free rein. Taking the poor beasts to pity, Buddha began to preach non-violence. He spread the idea that he attached no faith to the Vedic norm, but strongly insisted on the harmful psychological effects of slaughtering animals. The men of the Kali-yuga or the iron age, deprived of faith in God and their diminished intelligence, adhered to his