Unexplained mystery of Puri Jaganath Temple

Jagannath Temple, Puri

Puri’s famous Jagannath Temple holds a prominent place of importance for devotees. It is one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites in India, and is also well-known for the annual chariot festival or Rath Yatra.

Many events that happen in this temple is beyond science.

• The Mystery Of The Cooking Pots

The food in the kitchen of the Jagannath Temple Puri is cooked in earthen pots. The pots are placed one, on top of the other on firewood in the hearth. The food in the pots are cooked uniformly and what is amazing is the fact that the food in the topmost pot is cooked first while the ones below get cooked in the order of their position with the bottom-most pot getting cooked last!

• Kali yuga Akshayapatra

In Hindu history, Akshayapatra is a vessel that held a never-failing supply of food. Coming to the kitchen of the Jagannath Temple Puri, which is considered to be the biggest and largest kitchen in the world. The kitchen consists of 32 rooms having 250 earthen ovens and over 600 cooks with 400 assistants prepare the food that is offered to the Lord and partaken off by the devotees as Prasadam. One of the interesting facts about Sri Jagannath Temple that defy explanation is the fact that though the same quantity of food is cooked every day in the kitchen, it is able to feed the devotees irrespective of the variation in the number of visitors that may range from 2,000 to 20,000. What is remarkable is that never is there a shortage or surplus of food. Indeed food for thought!

• An Ancient Sound Proof Chamber

The Jagannath Temple Puri has four doors, one in each direction. As we stepped into the temple through the Singhadwara, the main entrance to the temple located in an easterly direction, the sound of the ocean suddenly ceased and was completely shut off. However, when we exited the temple, the sound of the waves crashing on the sands was unmistakably audible. Another engineering marvel? Another unexplained mystery? Another divine manifestation? No answers, only an enduring enigma on the sands of time. Another one of the unexplained facts about Puri, Jagannath.

• Defying The Laws Of Geography

It is a known geographical fact that the breeze from the sea blows towards the land during the daytime and the breeze from the land blows towards the sea during night times. However, it is a remarkable fact that these laws of Geography are reversed near the shores of the Jagannath Temple Puri, where the breeze from the sea blows during the night and the breeze from the land blows towards the sea during the daytime. The action of the winds that blow near the coast where the temple is situated remains as one of the scientific mysteries of Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri.

• The Mysterious flag

The saffron and yellow triangular flag on top of the temple always flutters on the opposite direction of the wind. This is yet another of the amazing and unbelievable facts about Jagannath Temple.

• The Sudarshana Chakra

The chakra is actually 20 ft high and weighs a ton. It is fitted on top of the temple. But what is interesting about this chakra is that, you can see this chakra from any corner of the Puri city. The engineering behind the placing and positioning of chakra is still a mystery because irrespective of your position, you can always feel that the chakra is facing toward you.

All the above mentioned events prove that there are many things beyond the explanation of science.