ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ମହିମା .14

@ (Naaoham tisthami Baikunthe...

Yoginam hrudaye na cha...

Madvakta yatro dhyayantee...

Tatra tisthami narado...)@

Thousands of devotees have preached the supremacy of lord jagannath once and again.One such devotee is Raghu Behera,a dheebar by caste, of pipile village near puri.He was a pious man with immense devotion for the lord god jagannath . He used to do his daily fishing but his mind was always in lord jagannath.Once he decided to renunciate everything for god. His mother and wife did not like the idea and persuaded him to remain with family. That day he went for fishing and got a big fish. Suddenly he thought of the meena-avatar(The fish incarnation) of God. He could not kill it .with much difficulty he kept it on the ground and put his hand on its neck. Suddenly the fish uttered the word "narayan ". Hearing the name of god he left it unhurt and requested the almighty God to offer him a darshan . He prayed god and promised to give up life unless god offers him a darshan. The God knew his devotee and appeared before him in the guise of a brahmin and asked him why he is sitting. Raghu told everything to the brahmin. The brahmin persuaded him to abstain from the promise.

The family members,seeing him late became worried and started searching him . The God in guise was kind to tell him that he is God himself and came to see him. Raghu did not agree and told to show him his real figure . God was so pleased with his devotee that he exposed his chaturvuj form before the dheebar and blessed him.

(jai jagannath)

Kalia name mahanando

padu jharuchi makarando

se makarande moro asho

mu chharo hari toro dasha