ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ମହିମା .13

@ (Naaoham tisthami Baikunthe...

Yoginam hrudaye na cha...

Madvakta yatro dhyantee...

Tatra tisthami narado...)@

Thousands of devotees have preached the supremacy of lord jagannath once and again.One such devotee is Damodar das of kanchi Nagar, a very poor but pious brahmin.He Prefers to feed brahmins/yogis even he himself remains half -fed. Lord Jagannath wanted to test his devotee and came to the home in guise of yogi. The god in guise begged for alms. Damodar saw a guest at his home and invited him and the God sat at his home. Damodar decided to feed the yogi but to his ill luck found nothing. His wife suggested to sell half of her long hair and arrange to feed the guest. The host's wife washed yogis wife. Damodar war helpless to cut half of her hair, sold it and bought grocery. He fed the yogi with a meal. The God took the meal with satisfaction and told that he will stay there for the night and have such a meal. The host,finding no other way ,cut rest of the hair,sold it and fed the yogi in the night.Damodar served the yogi by serving the yogi when the god was asleep.At last the God saw the bald head of his devotee, put his hand over it and see ! bunch of beautiful hair grew on her head and god filled the home with all the wealth and vanished all of a sudden.(jai jagannath)

Kalia name mahanando

padu jharuchi makarando

se makarande moro asho

mu chharo hari toro dasha