Thread by @mannsanatani

On the auspicious occasion of #SnanaPurnima in Jyestha month. I bow in love and reverence to the 9th Avatar of Lord Vishnu #JaiJagannath #SnanaYatra #Puri

The 9th Avatar of Vishnu is Lord Jagannath himself and not Buddha.

Please allow me tell you the story. 1/n
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Do you know why Lord Krishna told Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna ... not just to help him in the Mahabharata war but he imparted it for the people of upcoming yuga i.e Kali Yuga coz he knew the challenges that lay ahead.

With the end of the Mahabharat war Dwapara Yuga ended too.

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Krishna knew the eventuality. He knew Gandhari’s curse on him would come into effect soon. (She cursed him with the destruction of his clan for his refusal to disclose the truth of Karna’s ancestry to Suyodhana and prevent the Mahabharat war)

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So he said to Kali Yuga "You can’t enter until I am alive" so the cunning Kali made a deal with Lord Krishna and said, "I will wait but you have to promise me that you won’t interfere in my yuga". Krishna agreed.

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Kali said, "You won’t come like Rama/Krishna 2 restore Dharma coz in Kaliyuga thr won’t be Asura nor another Praani but the fight will b amongst humans n the real fight will b within every1, coz good n evil will reside in all. I'll to cause mayhem thru deception n confusion" 5/n

Lord Krishna accepts the deal coz he knew surely that he had already imparted the needed knowledge via Bhagavad Gita. Soon Krishna left Dwarka and went to the jungle one last time. 6/n #SnanaYatra

Here a Tribal huntsman shoots the arrow accidentally on his feet and he dies. Before dying he forgives the repentant Tribesman. 7/n #Puri

No one in Dwaraka knew that Krishna's soul left his body. The following day Arjuna came to Dwaraka to meet Krishna. Aghast that none knew Krishna's whereabouts but guided by his own intuition Arjuna makes way to the forest and finds Krishna’s body. 8/n

Arjuna spots the body and performs his funeral rites and leaves to Indraprastha with Krishna's widows and children. And the next day some tribal men come and find some remnants of Krishna's ashes.

Why did Krishna die like this? 9/n #JaiJagannath

Bcoz Gandhari had cursed Lord Krishna "When you die there will be no one from your family close to you." So you see the whole body of Lord Krishna burnt to ashes but something was still smoldering like hot coal .. 10/n
#Puri

It was his heart - we can say as per nuclear science it looked like a small Arc Reactor. @IamPraveenMohan The clueless Tribal men tried to sell it everywhere possible, but no one was ready to buy it. So finally they threw it into sea near Dwaraka. And Kali yuga enters. 11/n

After few hundred years the Raja of Puri who was a devotee of Krishna and who had made the request to become his Sevak and do Seva .. was visited by the soul of Krishna in his dream. He said "I have come to live in your state find me here" (Pls refer to my pinned thread) 12/n

https://twitter.com/mannsanatani/status/1331643563852107784?s=20

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He went to the sea-shore and found the glowing substance heart of Sri Krishna. He further got instructions in his dream that Prabhu asked him to find an old carpenter to make his murti and the Raja got the carpenter. 13/n

The carpenter was none other than reincarnated Vishwakarma. He came as an old man and looking at Sri Krishna’s heart said this can only stay inside a wooden statue. The Raja wanted to make a grand stone statue but the microreactor would blast inside it.
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So he again gets the reply in a dream from Sri Krishna to kindly comply with the Carpenter. Lord Vishwakarma started making Lord Jagannath Statue in a closed room and he said "Never ever open the door of this hall .. I will open it only when I am done." 15/n

The work kept on progressing and he was making the statue of Lord Jagannath inside the closed room. Even after 6 months there was no sign of him. One day the queen out of uncontainable curiosity thought the old carpenter must be dead and opened the doors of the room. 16/n

And he stopped the work which was only 25% completed. At that moment Vishwakarma abandoned the murti’s as it is .. The King of Puri was extremely upset. That’s why Lord Jagannath statue is strangely incomplete. With no complete hands nor legs just big eyes looking at us. 17/n

The King was extremely upset and prayed and sought apologies for his queen's mistake. Lord Krishna said, "This was meant to be coz in Kali Yuga I am just an observer and I will stay as Jagannath in Puri. I will see everything with my eyes but I wont get involved at all." 18/n

"That’s why as a symbol my hands and legs are not complete and every human has to use their own judgement to work and fight for Dharma (moral righteousness) or Adharma (injustice in all forms)."

Thus this 9th Avatar of Lord Vishnu is Jagannath.
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And he explained that he chose to stay in a wooden statue coz its for all humans to know that the body is mortal and it will die but the soul will always be immortal so perform your deeds courageously. So that your soul will carry it in memory to the next birth. 20/n

Hence KALKI IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS that we need to create within ourselves to win in this KALI YUGA. 21/n

There is no imaginary Horse Rider coming to save anyone. WAKE UP!

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Allow me to add a few things that many of you may already know or may not know..

#JaiJagganath body ritual
In every 12 years the Statue of Lord Jagannath changes and a new statue is made for the heart or Brahmapadartha 22/n

The Heart/Arc reactor/ Brahmapadartha is shifted to a new body 'wooden statue' on a Amavasya night. During such transfer as per ritual the "Heart" shouldn't be seen even by the transferor. Hence during that night until the act is completed, the whole town sees power shutdown 23/n

It happens in a darkest night and the Pujari who changes the Krishna’s heart the reactor is always covered with special protection. He is blind-folded.
He is not allowed to see it. And the old murti follows the ritual of a human dead body. 24/n

The power of the arc reactor decays the murti from within. It's kind of like #IronMan

Let this sink in..or should I say Power ON!!.. 25/n

Lord Krishna said in the end that...In Satya Yuga the fight between in GOOD and EVIL will be CLEAR so there was fight between Deva and Asura

In Tretya the fight is between God Like and Demon Like being so it was between Lord Ram and Ravan
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In Dwapara Yuga it is the fight almost like humans but in close relationships .. Pandava and Kaurava

In KaliYuga the fight is within each person.. the dilemma of confusion and deception. Fighting for Dharma begets sacrifices, but Adharma begets rewards. 27/n

Sometimes to do a good deed one may have to do a bad deed too and vice versa. Such will be the confusions that it will betray our conscience.

But the knowledge is already imparted in Bhagavad Gita.

"When you do your KARMA for DHARMA you will always find me beside you." 28/n

V r a modern race of an ancient civilization. We must ARISE n AWAKE to benefit our Dharma n our Dharmic society. Let us not fight as Trads vs NonTrads. Keep the bigger goal in mind. Rmmbr after defeat Suyodhana was renamed as Duryodhana by Bhima. We must WIN for Ma Bharti! 🕉️END

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