Jagannath

Aryanisation of ‘Jagannath’ from His aboriginal Origin is an interesting folklore study. Mythology and folklore Philosophy and Theology meet there in a single point. Popular imagination and aspects of thought make Him grow and develop from age to age. He has been a source of many a motif of Oriya folk-tales.

Mythology starts with Krushna leaving His mortal coil in the age of Dwapara. Krushna slept on a bower of creepers in readiness for His final journey. Jara, the hunter mistook His red feet as ears of a deer and pierced them with arrows and thus caused the end of His incarnation in Dwapara. Now came the age of Kali. Krushna was worshipped as ‘Nilamadhaba’ by Viswabasu, the son of Jara. Viswabasu, the head of Sabars was a great devotee of Nilamadhaba. He did not permit any body else to see this God. But this was alien to the nature of the all pervading God who did not like to remain as a personal God and wished to participate in human affairs from the lowliest to the highest.

Indradyumna, the king of Malwa, somehow got scent of Nilamadhaba and wished to worship Him in a temple. He sent Vidyapati a Brahmin in search of the above God. Viswabasu, the Sabar chief forced Vidyapati to marry Lalita, his daughter at the point of arrow. This marriage brought about an union and a religious, social and cultural fusion of the Aryans and the Aborigines and the intermixture of blood gave rise to generations of daitas, the permanent worshippers of Lord Jaganath.

Lalita requested her father to show Nilamadhaba to Vidyapati,. Viswabasu agreed on condition that his son-in-law would be taken to the God blindfolded. Lalita was however cleverer than her father. She tied some mustard in the napkin of her husband who scattered the same on both sides of his path, which grew up and later helped indradyumna to find out the way.

Vidyapati saw Nilamadhab in the dense forest under a banian tree and prayed to Him with great devotion. Viswabasu permitted vidyapati to stay in the place for some time and went n search of roots and fruits.

~Warning of the four handed God

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A crow fell down in a pool of water in front of the Nilamadhaba and turned into a four handed God and went straight to Vaikunth, the abode of Visnu. Vidyapati was spiritually inspired after the incident and tried to imitate the crow. The four handed God from the heaven warned him against doing it and requested him to do his duty as a messenger of the king. If he would fail to give message of the whereabouts of the Nilamadhaba to Indradyumna, he would turn into a woden frog and would remain in that condition for one thousand years.

~Nilamadhaba desiring to be worshipped as Darubrahma🌺🐚🌺

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Viswabasu used to give roots of the forest as offering every day and the God stretched his blue hand and accepted it. But that day he did not stretch His hand and a voice said that He would like to be worshipped as Darubrahma (wooden image) in the temple.

~Disappearance of the Nilamadhaba

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Indradyumna paid a visit to Nilamadhaba as he got the message of His whereabouts and felt proud that he was a supreme monarch who would be credited with the installation of the image of the Lord in a magnificent temple. The God, who could read his mind, disappeared. The king regretted his weakness and suspected that the Nilamadhaba was stolen by Viswabasu and quickly led his army to arrest him. The God, however, saved the situation declaring that nobody was responsible for his disappearance. He asked the king to build a temple and invite Brahma, the creator to celebrate the purification ceremony. Dispute between Indradyumna and Galamadhaba

Indradyumna built a temple of the height of one hundred twenty cubits, went to the heaven to invite Brahma to perform the purification ceremony. Brahma was then is a state of prayer and offering water to the Lord and asked his royal guest to wait. Hundreds of years passed in human calculation. The earth underwent many changes. The temple was cancealed under hills of sea sands. Galamadhaba became the ruler of Orissa. The hoof of his horse struck against the flag post of the temple. The king cleared the sands and to his utter surprise, noticed a great temple and claimed t as his own construction. Indradyumna who came down from heaven with Brahma for the purification ceremony, however, claimed that he was the builder. A dispute ensured. But there was no living being left on the earth who could now act as witness.

The four handed crow God named Bhusanda who was immortal, on the branch of a banian tree called kalpabata the tree of eternity acted as the first witness. Bhusanda was meditating with legs raised up. As He head somebody calling He enquired of his name, place and position. Brahma introduced himself as the creator. The four handed God said that He had seen crores of Brahmas vanishing before His very eyes including the thousand-headed one. He might be the four headed one born out of lotus of the navel of Visnu. He passed the judgment that Indradyumna was the real builder.

Galamadhaba did not bow down to this decision and they then passed to the next witness—a tortoise. A tortoise of the tank, ‘Indradyumna’ said that he was once a man, a labourer engaged in building the temple. He turned into a tortoise for too much of labour. He was afraid of Indradyumna that he might again be engaged by him to finish up the rest of the work of the temple. The matter was proved beyond doubt that Indradyumna was the real builder. Galmadhaba was proved to be liar whose statue was installed outside the temple premises. He was not paid any respect and remained unworshipped.

Brahma, when asked to perform the purification ceremony, and that he was incapable of doing it. He could only tie a flag at the top of the temple, the sight of which could free men in bondage. The great temple in Nilachala (Blue mountain) remained vacant without an image for many years. Indradyumna lay on the grass bed starving. The Lord appeared in dream and declared that He would come in form of a log of wood at the confluence of the river Banki and the sea.

~Failure of physical forces in carrying the log

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Indradyumna went in a magnificent royal procession of elephant and soldiers and tried to draw the log with all his forces from the water at the mouth of the river, but was unable to move it. The king was sorry for relying too much on physical forces, lay starving there again. Lord Jagannath appeared to him again in dream and advised him not to make a show of physical force, should approach the log with all humility. Viswabasu and Vidyapati the two devotees should drive a golden cart with silken pillow and carry the long and thus the log was easily carried to the temple premises.

~An old man succeeds where skilled artisans fail

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Thousands of artisans were engaged to build the images. They boasted of their skill and failed to make any progress. The log seemed too hard for them. When the king Indradyumna, queen Gundicha and thousands of artisans were at a fix, an old man appeared on the scene and promised to build the image. No one believed him as he was bentwith age and looked too weak. But he proved his efficiency by lifting easily this too heavy log. The log was put inside the main temple. The old artisan was to build the images within 21 days. The door sealed would not be opened before that period was completed. Fourteen, days passed. No sound was heard from inside the temple. Queen Gundicha was afraid that the old man might be dead. The king was compelled to break the seal and open the door. Lo, the images were but unfinished and the old artisan was not found anywhere. Every one believed that he might be the Lord Himself. Who of flesh and blood could build the image of the Almighty ?

~Boon asked for, the most extra-ordinary

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The Lord, now pleased, gave all liberty to Indradyumna to ask for any boon. The king did not ask for a bigger kingdom, more wealth or a long lease of life or any thing pertaining to physical or earthly happiness. His prayer was the most extra-ordinary one. He wanted that there should be nobody left in his family to claim this huge temple or the images as his proud heritage. For that would mar the efficacy of the good deed. The boon was granted by the Lord. 

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Bhusanda

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Alexander

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peck

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Boon

Kakabhusundi was a crow who is also regarded highly as Kagabhujandar.

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He has a boon to remember all his previous births. He lived in ayodhya during Kali Yuga of previous kalpa.

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He clears Garuda’s doubt about Rama being a mere human or avatar of Vishnu.

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Kakabhushundi has witnessed Ramayana happen 11 times with multiple outcomes of Rama-Ravana war, and seen Mahabharat 16 times with different results.

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But after seeing Daksha Yagya twice, he did not either care to see it again or saw no point to seeing any more, as it ended the same way each time.

https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/retelling-ramayana-through-padma-purana 

https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/sita-was-the-daughter-of-ravana/47862

Universe to Multiverse

Kakabhushundi Ji due to continuous chanting of the Name of Ram 

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lives even at the time of dissolution and so has seen multiple universes and multiple times Lord Rama incarnating and Ramayana being written. 

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He even once got into Lord Rama’s stomach and saw infinite number of Universes there and many incarnations of Lord Rama, 

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where Lord Rama was the same but all others were different.

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evil

Philosophers, theologists, and religious preachers have all tried to ponder over the problem of evil without any convincing conclusion. The problem of evil has existed since times immemorial and many of the misdeeds of the evil-doers may sound eerily contemporary. The conception of time in Hindu religious thought talks about four eras — Satyug, Treta, Dwapar, and Kalyug. It has been prophesied that Kalyug, the present time, will be the worst in terms of righteousness or dharma and there will be evil abounding all around. In the Ramayana, there is a detailed dialogue between Garuda and Kakabhushundi on this subject. Instances have been quoted predicting what the scenario will be like. And yes, the scenario is very much like what was predicted. But let us examine the problem of evil. Was it not there in the SatyugIJ It was and no less than what we see today. The forces representing evil were the rakshasas or the demons doing whatever they felt like, and the good, the sanyasis, were suffering at their hands. That was Satyug, the era of truth. Then came Treta, the second era. The situation was no better. Evil forces represented by Ravana and his ilk did the same things their predecessors in the Satyug had done. The third era that followed was the Dwapar or the era of Mahabharata and Krishna. The evil forces were again doing the same things that were done during the earlier periods. In Dwapar, the forces of evil were represented by Kansa and his ilk who again were perpetrating evil. So from Satyug represented by Hiranyakashap to Treta symbolised by Ravana to Dwapar epitomised by Kansa, the evil persisted. Kalyug, of course, is witnessing the same. So this fight between the good and evil is eternal, irrespective of any religion or time. Even in the Old Testament it was the Satan responsible for catalysing the ‘Paradise lost’. And of course, the first time that crime visited the earth was in the form of a murder, brother Cane killing Abel out of sheer envy. The New Testament is also a saga of treachery, bigotry and deceit. But the point is not to narrate a historical account of the problem of evil and the suffering of good down the ages. The point is to identify the reasons why evil persists. While we may identify many reasons if we observe the incidents and carry out a detailed historical analysis, the one reason behind all those reasons has been the individual and his ego, his ahankara. It was the same ahankara that drove the forces of evil in the earlier eras of Satyug, Treta, and Dwapar, and it is the same ego that is driving evil in Kalyug. This three lettered word is at the root of all evil deeds. Take a careful look around and you can understand. The answer to the problem of evil lies in understanding its nature and taming it. It apparently seems difficult because our understanding of reality is mired in a four letter word maya, the myth, which makes us believe that we are invulnerable. This false belief pushes us to evil and inebriated with ahankara, we create our own nemesis.

logical

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Bhushan

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Again

In Uttarkanda, the last chapter of Ramacharitamanas, we find the teachings on bhakti yoga delivered by Kaka Bhusundi, who was an enlightened sage in the body of a crow, to Garuda, the celestial eagle and vehicle of Lord Vishnu. Kaka Bhusundi is a great bhakta of Sri Rama and teaches all the feathered folk who flock around him about the path of devotion to Sri Rama. Kaka Bhusundi first relates the story of Sri Rama's life, but it is more than just a story. What he is really conveying is the path of bhakti yoga.

Devotion to God is something we can never understand unless God comes himself in the form of a man. We can conceptualize about some abstract philosophical ideal, but that is not God. As human beings, we can only experience and relate to that God who comes to us in the same form as we are. We can understand our life and the people around us, but we cannot understand something very abstract which we have never experienced or known.

Therefore, the story of Sri Rama is the story of God who was born in the form of a man. This initiates the path of bhakti yoga and brings it into existence for us, because bhakti yoga is the love of God embodied, God born as a man, God made manifest, not the unmanifest God but the God that we can see, touch and relate to. This is the teaching given to Garuda when Kaka Bhusundi told the story of Sri Rama's life. In this sense, it was more than a story; it was a form of darshan, a vision of God as a man.

After hearing the story of Sri Rama's life, Garuda's doubts were resolved and he asked Bhusundi,

"But how did such a knowledgeable person as you come to inhabit the body of a crow?" 

Bhusundi replied, "I was not always in this form, as you see me now. Listen now to the story of how a vainglorious young man gradually becomes transformed into a devotee and then into a pure soul, who is completely merged in God." So, Bhusundi tells Garuda the story of his own life, and this forms the second part of his teaching, which is a great inspiration, especially for those of us who seek the heights of spiritual life without understanding what this may entail.

Early life
Kaka Bhusundi was not always a crow. Originally he was born in Ayodhya, and as a young man he was very arrogant and proud. In his youth he became a devotee of Lord Shiva and every day he would go to the temple to pray. During this time he met a saint, who was a Brahmana and also a devotee of Lord Shiva, but at the same time full of respect for Sri Rama too. Even though Bhusundi was a young and arrogant fellow, the saint was very kind to him, giving him many teachings and also initiating him into Shiva's mantra.

Although Bhusundi grew up in Ayodhya, he had a very strong aversion to Sri Rama. Whenever he saw servants or devotees of Sri Rama, he would get very angry and speak rudely to them and about them. The kind saint, who was trying to help and teach him, would daily reproach him for this and ask him not to behave in this way. "Look," he would say, "the fruit of worshipping Shiva is only faith and devotion to Sri Rama. All the practices you do, all the efforts you make towards attaining the grace of Shiva, will only lead you to the feet of Sri Rama." However, Bhusundi would become all the more angry and sometimes even shout at his saintly preceptor.

This went on for some time, but the preceptor never reacted. He continually tried to correct Bhusundi, who only wanted to worship Shiva, but in a very egotistical way. One day Bhusundi was doing japa in Lord Shiva's temple, all the while thinking of himself as a very great meditator, as we sometimes think ourselves to be. He thought he understood the way better than his kind preceptor who had guided and initiated him. I will only follow Lord Shiva, he thought to himself, because Sri Rama is inferior, even repulsive. So, when his preceptor walked into the temple, Bhusundi went right on with his japa and meditation, ignoring him totally as if he wasn't even there.

Remember that Bhusundi was praying to Lord Shiva, and the saint was also a devotee of Lord Shiva. So when Lord Shiva saw Bhusundi's behaviour, he spoke aloud in the temple, "You stupid fool! I've had enough of your arrogance. Now I'm going to curse you roundly, and you'll not escape from this curse!" When the preceptor heard that, he became very worried, and young Bhusundi also started to tremble in his seat. Lord Shiva continued: "As you were too lazy and dull-witted to stand up and offer your preceptor due respect when he entered, I'm going to turn you into a serpent. You will henceforth become a python and dwell in the hollow of a tree!" When Lord Shiva spoke thus, the preceptor was overcome with fear and compassion for his errant and ignorant disciple. So he prayed to Lord Shiva, singing a beautiful hymn (Namami shamishana nirvanaroopam, which is in Uttarkanda 107) on behalf of Bhusundi, to mitigate the curse.

Lord Shiva was pleased, because the Lord is always pleased when his devotee is sincere, kind and forgiving. So he said to the preceptor, "Alright, I will grant you any boon." The preceptor replied, "Well, first give me the boon of always being devoted to your feet. But second, kindly give me another boon!" Shiva agreed, and then the preceptor said, "Forgive Bhusundi, the poor ignorant fellow is just lost in illusion and doesn't know any better."

Lord Shiva replied, "My words can never be in vain, but I will try to help him. Even though this curse must come true, it will eventually become a source of blessing for him. He will have to take one thousand sub-human births and live in all the different lower forms, but I will spare his suffering in each birth. He will neither suffer the agony of birth and death nor will he lose the awareness of all his past births. And gradually, because he was born in Ayodhya, and because he worshipped me, he will achieve devotion for Sri Rama."

Rebirth
So it happened that immediately upon leaving the temple, Bhusundi went into the forest, where he dropped his body and started the process of transmigration. He was born as a serpent and then took birth in a thousand other sub-human forms. Each form he assumed dropped away with ease, just as a man casts off old clothes and dons new ones, and his understanding never left him. Finally, at the end of all these transmigrations, he had acquired a deep love for Sri Rama and was born as a Brahmana.

While growing up, Bhusundi was only interested in hearing Sri Lord Rama and enacting his lilas. Sometimes his father would try to educate him, but he was never interested in secular things. He only wanted to know about Sri Rama. Upon reaching maturity, he went to live in the forest. There he moved continually from hermitage to hermitage, asking the different saints, rishis and hermits to tell him about the life of Sri Rama and about his divine qualities. He would listen to these stories and feel happy, and then he would move on again to another hermitage.

All the worldly desires had left him and only one longing grew within his heart - to behold the lotus feet of Sri Rama. The view of an impersonal God, which many of the sages held, did not appeal to him at all, but love for the embodied Lord filled his heart more and more. So he went about the forest singing the praises of Sri Rama with a love which became stronger every moment. Finally he came to the sage Lomasa, who was renowned for his great learning, and asked for guidance on how the embodied Lord should be worshipped.

The great sage recounted a few of Sri Rama's virtues, and then launched into a long discourse about the glories of the unmanifest supreme spirit, thinking Bhusundi fit to receive such knowledge. But the truth that the individual soul is identical with the formless and attribute-less universal Brahman did not appeal to Bhusundi's heart. Bowing to the sage, he again asked, "Kindly tell me how to worship the embodied Lord. My mind takes delight in Sri Rama, just as a fish loves to be in water and cannot live outside it. Therefore, O great sage, teach me the method whereby I may be able to see the Lord of Raghus with my own eyes. After seeing the Lord, I will then listen to your discourse on the attribute-less Brahman."

The sage once again recited the story of Sri Rama, but demolished the doctrine that the Supreme appears in an embodied form, and re-established the proposition that the Supreme is ever without attributes. Bhusundi then reiterated his view with great obstinacy, and so the two entered into a heated discussion. The impassioned sage expounded on the formless God again and again, while Bhusundi responded with questions which advanced his own argument, without listening respectfully to the wisdom of the great sage.

Finally, the sage became infuriated with Bhusundi and spoke the following words, "You refuse to accept the wisdom I am teaching you, and indulge in endless arguments and counter-arguments. You are extremely self-opinionated and, like a crow, look upon everything with distrust. Therefore, you shall at once take the form of a crow." Bhusundi bowed to the curse pronounced by the sage without any feeling of fear or animosity, and was immediately transformed into a crow. Taking leave of the sage and fixing his thoughts on Sri Rama, Bhusundi joyfully took flight.

When the Lord came to know that his devotee Bhusundi had just received another curse, he confronted the sage and asked him to rectify this mistake. Lomasa was amazed at the extraordinary forbearance and faith shown by Bhusundi and politely called him back, repenting again and again for his harsh action. The sage consoled Bhusundi in every way and then imparted to him the mantra of Sri Rama and the method of meditation on Sri Rama as a child, which pleased him very much. He also recited the entire Ramacharitamanas to Bhusundi and gave him the blessing that devotion to Sri Rama would ever abide in his heart without interruption. At that moment a celestial voice was heard from the heavens, "May your blessing come true, O enlightened sage, for he is my true devotee in thought, word and deed."

Bhusundi was overjoyed to hear the Lord's benediction and all his doubts immediately vanished. Asking the sage for permission to depart, Bhusundi went away to his own hermitage, where he continued to live in the form of a crow for twenty-seven cycles of creation. There he remains ever engaged in singing the praises of Sri Rama while the enlightened birds gather around him to listen. Each time the Lord assumes the form of a man in the city of Ayodhya, for the sake of his devotees, Bhusundi goes there to enjoy the spectacle of his childish sports. Again enshrining the image of the child Rama in his heart, he returns to his hermitage.

This was the story Bhusundi imparted to Garuda, the king of birds, when asked how such an enlightened soul came to inhabit the body of a crow.

When Garuda asked again why he continued to live in such a lowly form when he could easily take any other, 

Bhusundi replied, "I love this body only because it was in this form that uninterrupted devotion to Sri Rama sprang up in my heart. I was blessed by the Lord in this body and all my doubts vanished." Bhusundi upheld the path of devotion for which the great sage cursed him to take the form of a crow. But eventually he obtained the boon which he sought, and which is difficult even for sages to obtain. This is the power of bhakti.

Sarovar

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Prem

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