Jaladan Pastime
Lord Nrsimhadev’s pujari had a very
startling dream in which the director of the Temple called him and told him to
bring some diesel oil, saying, “We are going to sacrifice Lord Nrsimhadev.”You
are going to what?!” exclaimed the pujari.” “Yes we are going to sacrifice Lord
Nrsimhadev.”
“You can’t do that, this is crazy.”
“Just bring the diesel will you?”
“Ok, I will bring the oil but I don’t
want anything to do with this, it doesn’t make any sense.”
After some time the pujari returned to
the temple and was totally shocked to see that everything had been completely
burned by a great fire and all that remained of the Deity was his feet and
ankles. Early next morning he approached the chief pujari and asked if he could
explain the meaning of this terrible nightmare. After thinking for awhile, he
began to smile and said “Oh yes, you see yesterday was the start of jaladan
(the festival of dripping water on salagram for one month), but we forgot to
observe it, therefore Lord Nrsimhadev is letting you know that He is burning up
and you should immediately begin the jaladan,” which we did!
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