With power comes responsibility

In Ramayana, we also see the sixth avatar of Vishnu, who was Parasurama. Vishnu took the Avatar as Parasurama to control the dominance of Kshatriyas. Parasurama even though born as a Brahmin, had great power by god's grace. After he taught a lesson to the Kings and the Kshatriya race, he did not stop. He continued destroying them. He forgot his true responsibility. Only after Rama defeated him in a combat, Parasurama realized his folly.

Success can blind us to our obvious faults

  

This is the key takeaway of our new book - "The Seventh Avatar".

The Seventh Avatar is story of the birth of Rama. Vishnu had to incarnate as Rama to end Ravana's atrocities.

Ravana was very successful and powerful. He was very talented and learned as well. There was one problem with him, however. His success got to his head disabling him from thinking straight. When he prayed to Brahma for a boon, he requested protection from all life forms except man. He was too conceited to believe that a man could actually harm him. Hence Vishnu took an avatar as a man to vanquish Ravana.

In history, this mistake of underestimating your opponent has been made time and again...