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Rath Yatra 2019

Today is Rath Yatra.

The Lord comes out from His temple to meet His devotees.

From the morning we have been watching Live Telecast of Rath Yatra ceremony from Puri Jagannath Temple on Doordarshan. Along with the visual, there are commentaries by - Bharati Nandi, Abhay Kumar Padhi, Prabir Krishna Das and Sumana Ghosh about various facts. I am enjoying listening to all of them. Many stories of devotees like Raghunath Das and also about a devotee from a village who sent a Coconut for the Lord, some amazing facts as well as all the information related to the Rath yatra of Lord Jagannath, like how many parts are there in a Rath, their names, information about woods, about the different flags on the three differemt raths, their presiding deities, how Rath yatra is also considered as Dashavataar yatra, why Sudarshan comes out before all others to cleanse the mind of the devotees, so that the devotees can have the darshan of the Lord, how the dust particles as well as the wind of Puri is considered blessed during Rath Yatra- all are explained beautifully by the guests. We also came to know that the sea adjoining the temple is called Mahodadhi, which means- the great sea.

There are many other famous Rath Yatra festival like the Rath Yatra of Maahesh, West Bengal, (which reminds me of the famous story 'Rajani' of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay), ISKCon Rath Yatra in  Kolkata, Rath Yatra of Ahmedabaad and many more.

A blissful day indeed!

Jai Jagannath!
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