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Worship of Durgamadhab in the Grand Temple, Puri Odisha Review October - 2015 Worship of Durgamadhab in the Grand Temple, Puri Durgamadhab Dash God is one. But He is adored and worshipped in God¶s Maya Shakti is also described as different names and forms. The believers of God the Adya-Shakti of the universe. In some places, hold the view that the different forms of God whom She is worshipped in the name of Jwalamukhi. people worship are but the symbolic expressions In other places, She is worshipped in the name of of different manifestations of the divine energy. Kanyakumari. She is also worshipped at some By His very divine nature, God is present places as Bimala and somewhere as Durga, everywhere. He knows everything. He is aware Bhairabi, Mangala and so on. All these divine of the past. He knows the future. He is all- forms are the expressions of one and the same powerful. So He is known as the omnipresent, Mayashakti of the Almighty Lord. For the sake omnipotent and omniscient Lord of the universe. of a uniform expression, this divine prowess is eulogized as the Adya Shakti of the divine God is also adored as Parabramha. He creation. is the supreme power of the universe. Within Him In Srikshetra Puri, the four armed Durga is present the mystic power known as Maya- is worshipped as Bimala Thakurani. She is also Shakti, the power of delusion. It is this divine adored and worshipped as Bhairabi. Lord force of the Lord that is ever vibrant. It is always Jagannath, the presiding deity of the Temple is agile in nature. This ³Shakti,´ in communion with known as Madhaba. He is adored as the moving God is the cause of all creations and all idol of Lord Jagannath. Sri Jagannath, is also destructions in the universe. It is said that the spirit divinely worshipped as Bhairaba. The worship of delusion makes God ever-expressive, flexible of Bhairabi and Bhairaba is observed in the Grand and peripatetic in every sphere of activity, both Temple. It is run through a periodic divine ritual. divine and undivine in nature. It is an illustrious divine practice.It is observed in The Maya Shakti is explained in the the Grand Temple in pomp and ceremony in the scriptures as the Devi Shakti of the Supreme month of Ashwin. Brahma. Worship of this Devi Shakti along with Scriptures say that worship of God is divinely portrayed as Durgamadhaba Durgamadhaba is as old as the inception of the Worship as prevalent in Srikshetra, Puri. In this Grand Temple. There is a beautiful story to divine practice, one worships both the µBrahma¶ substantiate this spiritual truth. The story runs as and His µMaya Shakti¶ together. follows. 11 October - 2015 Odisha Review As we all know, it was during the time of practice according to which, Maa Durga i.e Bimala Maharaja Indradyumna that the Grand Temple who was the goddess of Galamadhab and Sri of Lord Jagannath was built in all its grandeur. Madhab, i.e Lord Jagannath who was the god of According to a spiritual exposition, after the Maharaja Indradyumna, shall both be worshipped Grand Temple was built, Maharaja Indradyumna as a divine ritual in the Grand Temple. This went to Brahmadeb to invite Him to earth for spiritual happening, is widely believed in Srikshetra consecration of the Temple. At that time, Puri as the background of the beginning of Brahmadev was engrossed in deep meditation. Durgamadhab worship in the Grand Temple.Thus As such, Maharaja Indradyumna had to wait at this practice has been in vogue since the inception Brahmalok till the completion of Brahma¶s of the temple. meditation. In the matter of calculation, one day There is another popular belief that,after in Brahmalok is equal to several thousand years dissipation of the religious differences between on earth. In that way, when the Lord¶s meditation the Shaktas and the Vaishnavites, the sacred was over for the day, several years had elapsed practice of Durgamadhab worship had first begun on earth. During the said period, the Temple, in Srikhetra Puri. The Grand Temple was the built by Maharaja Indradyumna had been covered illustrious religious alter from where this inviolable with sand and slipped deep in to earth. As time Vaishnavite cum Sakta religious systemization had passed by, a king known as Galamadhab had sprung up bringing to the religious front a come to power on earth. He was a very powerful re-designed mode of worship and this had come king. While he was moving along the region where upleading to a new religious culture in Odisha the temple had been built, the hoof of his horse which was accepted by both the Vaishnavites and struck the pinnacle of the Temple. King the Saktas in the ultimate run of events. Galamadhab immediately got down and ordered for excavation of the holy structure and at last, On the northern side of the Bhog Mandap the temple of the Lord was discovered. He also in the Grand Temple, two idols, the idols of Sri discovered installation of goddess Bimala whom Madhab and Maa Bhairabi, have been nicely he worshipped for divine benediction in Tantric carved on a piece of stone bearing testimony to procedure. While so, Maharaja Indradyumna the fact that at one point of time in the past, both with Lord Brahma appeared at the temple site on Sri Madhab and Maa Bhairabi were being earth and stated that it was he who had built the worshipped together in the Grand Temple and temple, and accordingly he established his right that was actually the beginning of Durgamadhab over the shrine and claimed the same from the worship which has now become very popular as imperial control of king Galamadhaba. The a religious ritual in Odisha. occurrence that next followed was a sort There is another proof of this religious altercation between the two kings.At last, with practice. This has reference to the Durgamadhab the intervention of Lord Brahma, there was an temple. On the south western corner of the amicable settlement of the matter between the two Baharbedha of Srimandir, there is a temple known kings.It was in the presence of Lord Brahma that as Durgamadhab temple which substantiates the the difference was amicably, settled and it was fact that Durgamadhab worship was very much decided following the amicable settlement that in in vogue among the inhabitants of Puri in the good Srikshetra Puri, there shall be in vogue a religious old days. 12 Odisha Review October - 2015 We have yet another specimen of Galamadhaba Peetha. Even today, it bears an historical corroboration on this score. important reference in all postal communications. The fact is that, when king Galamadhaba Briefly stated, this is the history of the beginning took possession of the Temple during Maharaja of Durgamadhab worship in Srikshetra Puri. This Indradyumna¶s trip to Brahmalok to invite Brahma is said to be the most illustrious religious practice for consecration of the Temple, he had developed of Utkal Pradesh. This is not in vogue in other a chunk of land in the Temple area at Puri to Temples of our country. The practice of provide accommodation to the Sebayats Durgamadhab worship has become so popular belonging to the Tantric mode of worship. in Odisha that in all social functions of an Odia- Galamadhaba was a staunch follower of the household, the µPattachitra¶ of Durgamadhaba is Shakti cult. Maa Bimala, the principal goddess first established on the religious alter and their of the Grand Temple, was his most loved divine worship is next done before the formalities of the spirit. The king had provided living social ritual are actually begun. accommodation to the Sebayats of the goddess It is further believed that on the day of at that place now known as Harachandi Sahi Dussehra, a full view of Durga and Madhab is which presently extends from Manikarnika to considered most auspicious, as the scriptures say, Jambeswar Temple. Thus the inception of this gives the devotee all prosperity and victory in Harachandi Sahi is as old as the inception of the life. It fulfills the desires of the devotee and purveys Grand Temple in Srikshetra Puri. Necessarily the overall happiness in life. This is the worth and Sabayats provided with living accommodation excellence of Durgamadhab worship as observed here were the Shaktas in their religious faith. in all auspicious functions in Odisha. When Indradyumna appeared on the As regards the procedure being followed scene with Lord Brahma for consecration of the in Durgamadhab worship, it is said that Maa Temple, he had with him his own group of Bimala, the presiding goddess of Sri Mandir, Puri, Sebayats and they were Vaishnavites in their is adored as the Adishakti of the universe. The religious profession.The Sebayats of the consecration of Bimala Thakurani as the principal Indradyumna-group had also been provided with goddess of the Grand Temple has a ³puranic´ housing accommodation at the above place story. following his compromise with Galamadhaba. Once Daksha Prajapati was holding a Thus seen, at a particular point of time Mahayajna in his kingdom. He was terribly averse when the composite mode of worship had come to Sankar Mahadev. In relationship, Sankar into practice, Durgamadhab worship had been Mahadev had married Sati and that way, he was introduced in the Temple and both the groups of the son-in-law of Daksha Prajapati. On the Sebayats had been provided with housing occasion of the celebration of the Mahayajna, accommodation at the said place.Combining the Daksha Prajapati had invited all gods to his palace elements Shakti cult and Vaishnavism, the concept but not Sankara Mahadev out of avowed of God as worshipped in the Grand Temple was derision.
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