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Why did Paramahamsa ask Swami Dayananda whether He had permission from God to propagate knowledge?

[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, You told that Ramakrishna Paramahamsa asked Swami Dayananda that whether He (Dayananda) got permission from God to propagate a new interpretation of the Veda. Hearing that, Swami Dayananda left. You said that both are incarnations of God. Then, how did this happen between them?]

Swami replied:- Rama and Parashurama are incarnations of the same God Vishnu. Then, how did Parashurama become angry with Rama? Shankara was the incarnation of God Shiva and Mandana Mishra was the incarnation of God Brahma. Then, how was there such a long debate between them? The idea behind such incidents is that some important concept is preached to humanity through such selected highest roles. In such case, attention of the humanity is drawn very much because of the highest status of the two roles. One role will act in a wrong way and the other role will act in the correct way. Humanity feels that even such a highest person committed a mistake, and such mistake should not be repeated by any human being in future. Humanity will feel that the mistake committed is very powerful and hence, human beings must be very careful about that mistake. This drama of God through the two roles gives lot of stress on the concept so that humanity will become very cautious. Here, the important concept is that every Tom, Dick and Harry shall not become Sadguru and preach new concepts because human beings always err. Only God (Sadguru or contemporary human incarnation) can give new concepts without any error. A human Guru shall follow the railway track laid down by the Sadguru without any trace of deviation from the track. Sadguru can deviate to any side like a bus on the road. Hence, Paramahamsa wanted to bring out this concept that nobody shall propagate new knowledge without the direct permission from God. For this purpose, both the incarnations played this drama.

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