Incarnation

CRITICAL: NEVER ಅವತಾರ, especially salient for readers formed by coastal Karnataka’s Haridasa Krishna-bhakti tradition centered at Udupi. A distinct risk applies to Lingayat-background readers, who themselves reject avatar theology: they may instead receive Christ as an exceptionally realized human Sharana figure who attained Aikya, rather than the eternal, uncreated Son uniquely taking on flesh.