Shri Jagannath and World Peace

Present day world is tormented by atomic threat, terrorism, regional, disputes and the complicated life style due to various factors. The traditional society is disintegrated into nuclear households. The joint family system has been shattered due to industrialization and opening up various avenues to earn livelihood. The agrarian social pattern has assumed low priority with a drastic change of social values. In such a transitional phase, the mind of every individual remains disturbed even amidst plenty, glaring example is the inflow of foreigners into India in search of mental place. The ISKCON have become a world wide revolution. They preach only devotion through prayer and meditation to achieve peace in mind. Thus the greatest and the only need of the world is peace for survival. Against such a social backdrop, it is to be considered how world, community can achieve peace. Is there any panacea The normal process of every individual to surrender through meditation to the creator God. God is a subjective concept. It differs from individual to individual Rightly a philosopher has said that if the triengles and circles are given the power of thought, they will conceive their gods as triangular and circular. The Hindu Gods are multiple and divergent in nature. Some stones, animals, flora and fauna are worshipped as Gods for which some foreigners ridicule Indians. The only fact remains that every human being in general and Hindus in particular conceive the existence of the Creator in whatever form. If such forms or metaphysical illustration are combined together, a formless concept will emerge and that concept confirms to the image of Lord Jagannath. Guru Nanak, a Nirankari was asked as to why he has come to see Lord Jagannath. He replied that Lord Jagannath is neither Sankar nor Nirankar Le, having a form or formless that is Kimakar. Sri Jagannath culture constitutes an edictic system which has assimilated and incorporated in its fold the influences of many religious creds and sects and became a unique converging point of divergent shades of Hindu religion. He is regarded as the complete manifestation of the lord Supreme, PARAM BRAHMA. Vishnu or Narayan as contrasted with the other incarnations of Vishnu or Narayan who were only partial revelations of the God-head-Balabhadra, Subhadra, Jagannath and Sudarsan installed in the inner sanctuary of the great Shrine at Puri on a raised platform called "Ratna Bedi do not approximate to any anthromorphic gods and goddesses of Hindu Pantheon. The multifaceted culture of Lord Jagannath with its intricate ritual system and various aspects of the tradition have attracted many Indian and foreign scholars. For the foreigners, these are same bathing blocks, nevertheless they have produced some dependable works. In many ways such books are comparably less erroneous than the books of of Indian Languages. It was felt necessary that some such misconceptions should be displaced with and newer dimensions to the existing mass of knowledge should be added, for instance, after deplastering of the Sri Jagannath Temple more than 60 inscriptions have come up throwing light on the history of temples and Odisha. The process of gradual assimilation of various cults and creeds into formation of Sri Jagannath Culture need multi-disciplinary analys of socio religions aspects of such a comprehensive culture. Besides the Hindus in general, the Buddhists and Jainas have put forward strong arguments to show the trinity to much to do with their religious. Even the word "Syncretism may not even totally portray the nature of cultural homogeneity that has been built at Puri. The unity and assimilation of different cultural traits in Jagannath culture should not be construed as a kind of alliance for conversance. This is a different phenomenon based on a particular type of socioreligious traditions grown gradually. Ratha Yatra, the famous festival of Lord Jagannath has now become a global festival. In about 97 countries of the world by 2003 the Car festival is held. The original seat of Lord Jagannath, Puri is looked all over the world as a model. It attracts multitude of visitors from all over the world transcendenting all berriers of caste, creed and colour, Mahaprasad or the holy food of Lord Jagannath is a distinct contribution for social cohesion regardless to caste stigma of Hindu society. Everybody participate in partaking Mahaprasad. Even the Muslim devotees Santha Kabir, Jaban Haridas and many others have attached great sanctity to Mahaprasad which is otherwise called 'Annabrahma. Through Mahaprasad relationship is established with different groups and individuals which is considered more important than clan connections. Non-Hindu devotees like Jesus Christ, Romanian Prince known as Falahari Baba and many other foreign devotees have reposed their faith on Jagannath culture. Monotheists like Sankaracharya, dualists like amanuja. Krishna devotees like Madhava, Nimbarka, Ballavachari and Sri Chaitanya have accepted Sri Jagannath as Sri Krishna and established their monasteries at Srikshetra, Puri to preach and propagate this philosophy. Existence of a number of Mathas and Ashramas around the temple established by great preachers of India suggest that Lord Jagannath embraces all and rejects none. His comprehensive culture points at unmistakably to the inference that he is a humanized God representing the humanity as a whole which can be told as the symbol of Universal Humanity. Sankaracharya has described Sri Jagannath as 'Sahajananda Rupadhruk' meaning which gives easy pleasure to everyone for which He has taken a shape. He distributes pleasure in "Anandabazar". The Holy Trinity preaches human fraternity. Lord Jagannath Himself known as Purusottam emanates a message to the world community to be good men. Such message of Lord Jagannath should be widely propagated to establish brotherliness in present day torment ridden and fragmented world community. It is the only panacea to establish world peace.