However, when God in the form of Man plays the role of Audience alongside the unawakened selves, he can alter or erase at his Avataric whim any particular thing or happening destined and imprinted by the foremost original divine whim. Nevertheless, the Avatar interferes in the divinely determined happenings only when he deems it absolutely necessary. Even the occurrence of such a necessity, with the consequent intercession on the part of the Avatar, is in itself part and parcel of the divinely willed plan.
The Sufis make a distinction between qaza , a series of destined occurrences, and qadar , those happenings which are impulsive or "accidental." This divine impulse in qadar springs from the boundless compassion infinitely flowing from the Qutub or the Avatar. Thus the Avatar's or Qutub's actions come under the category of qadar which contains an element of "chance" and relieves the otherwise rigid determinism of the predestined course of events.
Though the Qutub's actions bring about modifications in the previously determined divine plan, these modifications are on a limited scale. On the other hand, the Avatar's intervention brings about modifications on a universal scale. For instance, suppose that a war was divinely ordained to occur in 1950. In the ordinary course of events, the catastrophe must inevitably take place at the appointed time and the train of world events will follow the preordained timetable with unerring punctuality. However, if the Avatar happens to be in the world at the time appointed for the war to take place, he might, as part of qadar [divine impulse], ward it off by some particular action on the gross plane. Thus, in the relentless working of the laws of Nature, there can enter the inexplicable divine caprice, spelling out peace instead of war in the "Diary of Fate."
As Kabir has said: "Fate is inexorable and unavoidable; only Ram [the Avatar] can alter it. He can undo destiny. He is Omnipotent, but whatever has been divinely destined has been planned after full thought."
The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in time of grave necessity — i.e., when he deems it absolutely necessary from his all-encompassing point of view. For, a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot interdependently mingles with the other means a shaking up and reassembling of an unending chain of possibilities and events. The least diversion in the pre-drawn line of Fate requires infinite adjustments, not only with the orbit of the individual concerned, but also involving in its interminable repercussions all those connected by the bond of past sanskaras.