Divine Mahaprasad of Mahaprabhu Jagannath ji 🚩

Mahaprasad is the term applied to the 56 food items offered to bhagwaan Jagannath ji in the mandir of Puri  #Odisha

The Prasāda offered to him and later to Maa Bimala devi is known as Mahaprasad.

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The specialty of 'mahaprasad' preparation lies in its massive cooking by unique steaming process in earthen pots, kept on above the other

Mahaprasad are sold in Anand Bazar. It is the biggest open-air kitchen in the world where every day 1000s of devotees purchase & eat together

Mahaprasad is of 2 types.
1.Sankudi mahaprasad includes items like rice, ghee rice, mixed rice, cumin seed & asaphoetida-ginger rice & dishes like sweet dal, plain dal mixed with vegetables, mixed curries of different types etc.

Sukhila mahaprasad consists of dry Sweet food.

Daily Bhoga is offered five times to mahaprabhu.

1.Gopala Vallabha Bhoga: it is 1st offering to prabhu in the morning that forms his breakfast.

2.Sakala Dhupa:
it is the next offering at about 10 am in the morning.
it consists of 13 items including the
Enduri cake & Mantha puli

3.Bhoga mandapa bhoga: The next repast and the offering consists of Pakhala with dahi and Kanji payas. The offerings are made in the bhog mandapa, about 200 feet from the Ratna Vedi. This is called Chatra Bhog.

4.The Madhyanha dhupa forms the next offering at the noon.

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विष्णुबाहु कृतोच्छ्राय गवां कोटिप्रभो भव।।

देवराज इन्द्र के अभिमान को चूर करने हेतु भगवान श्री कृष्ण ने, जो स्वयं लीलाधारी श्री हरि विष्णु के अवतार हैं ने एक लीला रची।

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प्रभु की इस लीला में यह हुआ कि एक दिन प्रभु ने देखा के सभी बृजवासी उत्तम पकवान बना रहे हैं और किसी पूजा की तैयारी में जुटे। श्री कृष्ण ने बड़े भोलेपन से मईया यशोदा से प्रश्न किया " मईया ये आप लोग किनकी पूजा की तैयारी कर रहे हैं" कृष्ण की बातें सुनकर मैया बोली -

“लल्ला हम देवराज इन्द्र की पूजा के लिए अन्नकूट की तैयारी कर रहे हैं।”

मैया के ऐसा कहने पर श्री कृष्ण बोले मैया हम इन्द्र की पूजा क्यों करते हैं ?

मैया ने कहा वह वर्षा करते हैं जिससे अन्न की पैदावार होती है उनसे हमारी गायों को चारा मिलता है।

भगवान श्री कृष्ण बोले हमें तो गोर्वधन पर्वत की पूजा करनी चाहिए क्योंकि हमारी गाये वहीं चरती हैं, इस दृष्टि से गोर्वधन पर्वत ही पूजनीय है और इन्द्र तो कभी दर्शन भी नहीं देते व पूजा न करने पर क्रोधित भी होते हैं अत: ऐसे अहंकारी की पूजा नहीं करनी चाहिए।

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देवराज इन्द्र ने इसे अपना अपमान समझा और मूसलाधार वर्षा शुरू कर दी। प्रलय के समान वर्षा देखकर सभी बृजवासी भगवान को लगने लगा कि ये सब श्री कृष्ण की बात मानने के फलस्वरूप हुआ

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Those who complain that women have no right to perform sacrifices on their own must remember that men too have no right to the same without a wife.

If they know this truth they would not make the allegation that Hindu shaastras looked down upon women.

A man can perform sacrifices only with his wife. He does them for the well-being of all mankind and for his own inner purity.

It is for this purpose that, after the samavartana following the completion of his student-bachelorhood, he goes through the samskaar called marriage.

Marriage or vivaaha is known as "सहधर्मचारिणीसमप्रयोग". It means (roughly) union with a wife together with whom a man practises dharma.

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This is the proof of the high esteem in which the shaastras hold women. The celibate-student and the ascetic alike follow the dharma of their respective aashramas (stages of life) not in association with anyone else.