KAROMA BAI, WHO BECAME A MOTHER TO BHAGWAN

SHUBHA RATRI 🕉️

A BEAUTIFUL STORY OF A DEVOTEE WHO MADE BHAGAWAN HER SON, AND WHO WAS BLESSED TO BE CALLED "MA" BY HIM😊

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(7/10/23)

In the 15th century, an entourage reached PURI, from Nagpur for the darshan of JAGANNATHA. Amongst the pilgrims was a young girl called KARARA BAI, who came along with them in search of her Husband who left her.

Upon the darshan of Prabhu JAGANNATHA, she became overwhelmed with motherly affection towards Bhagawan, and she made him her son and stayed back in Puri while the entourage left.

She built a small hut nearby the temple, and every day visited the temple for the darshan of Bhagawan and stayed there from morning to night. She realised that breakfast is served to Bhagawan pretty late after various sevas, and decided to prepare food and feed him, before the Naivedya is offered in the temple, so that Bhagawan doesn't have to starve till that time.

Thinking so, she woke up pretty early, and as a mother would for her child, prepared KHICHIDI for Bhagawan, and offered it to a small wooden idol of JAGANNATHA she had in her hut. As she was an illiterate, she wouldn't clean herself or her hut before offering food. One day, a Sanyasi visited her and saw that she's offering Naivedya without bathing and cleaning, and told her that JAGANNATHA would not accept her unclean Naivedya.

Next day she got up, cleaned her house, was preparing khichdi, when she heard a voice "JALDI KARO MA", She hurried with all her cleaning and then offered food to Bhagawan. When the poojari opened the door of Sanctum sanctorum, he saw JAGANNATHA'S face full of KHICHIDI. Astonished by this, he panicked.

He then heard the voice of Bhagawan that everyday he eats KHICHIDI early in the morning prepared by his mother, and today she was late because a Sanyasi preached her about

Cleaning. As it was getting late to reach the temple, he didn't have time to wash himself. Bhagawan asked him to go to his mother KARARA BAI and find the Sanyasi and tell them he can't wait, and she should offer him food as she used to before. The poojari found her and Conveyed the same.

The Sanyasi fell at her feet and said, "Ma your bhakti has surpassed all the ritualistic levels" and apologised to her. KARARA bai with tear filled eyes said, that is why she heard the voice JALDI KARO MA. From then on she was known as Karoma Bai. She served Prabhu JAGANNATHA till she attained Moksha on 25th of July 1634.

On this day, Prabhu JAGANNATHA did not eat food (even today when Naivedya is offered to JAGANNATHA, when the shadow of JAGANNATHA appears in the food it is offered as NAIVEDYAM. If it does not, it means something is Wrong and everything is discarded and Naivedyam is prepared again), and Prabhu JAGANNATHA shed tears .

This is recorded in the shasanas and is preserved in temple records. Even today the first Nivedana before cleaning the temple is KHICHIDI in a pot . To this day, during Ratha

Yatra, Prabhu JAGANNATHA'S Ratha stops for a while near KAROMA BAI'S samadhi. Without the sight of her samadhi, the Chariot won't move an inch.

She is called BHAKTA SHIROMANI KAROMA BAI🙏

The pure innocent bhakti of his devotees, is what moves Bhagawan 🙏

JAI JAGANNATHA 🙏

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