This picture of Lord Jagannatha was taken in Puri during the annual Snana Yatra festival. Once a year the deities of Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra are taken out of the temple for a bathing ceremony. This occurs around two weeks before the Ratha Yatra festival.
The demigods (suras) and demons (asuras) undertook the Churning of the milk-ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
SRIMAD-BHAGWATAM is mula-pramana, the original root of all Vedic evidence.
............... Divine Soil ...........
Gopijana ballavah..Kunjabi Hari
The Bhagavad Gita manifested 3137 BC at Kurukshetra, India
The four legs of the Holy bull ( Dharma ) represent austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness.
Prasadam (mode of goodness foodstuffs, prepared and offered to Krsna with love and devotion)
Hearing the Karatals resound, and the Mrdangas playing sweetly, everyone will feel great satisfaction
Simply by seeing, touching, remembering, praying to, bowing before, hearing about or simply by sowing this tree, there is always auspiciousness.
