Wednesday, July 15, 2015

LORD ALLARNATH AND DILDAR HUSSEIN

LORD ALLARNATH AND DILDAR HUSSEIN
LORD ALLARNATH

Lord Allarnath Temple

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HE gives Response to Call with Devotion

Undaunted devotion and trust is the key to reach at HIM. Even if somebody do not go to temples, do not put efforts to offer flowers and prasadam (Naivedya) to God but has full selfless devotion in mind, then he/she can make the impossible to possible. According to Shakespeare: “Impossible is a word found in fool’s dictionary.” God immediately responds to those who surrender to HIM with selfless devotion. Within twinkling of an eye, the desires of those devotees are fulfilled by God.

Such an incident was happened in the remote village ‘Palanka’ adjacent to ‘Brahmagiri’ where the temple of Lord Allarnath exists. The incident has been heard from one of the sevayat (devotee) of Lord. The true story was heard by one of the joint secretary of the revenue department of govt. of Odisha, Sri Sudhasu Sekhar Bhuyan.

One Muslim family was residing in ‘Palanka’ village adjacent to ‘Brahmagiri’. Dildar Hussein was the jaminder in that village. He had lot of property and uncountable grains of paddy and rice which were stored in a house called ‘Khamar’ (grain go down).In the event of famine or any calamity as needed by the villagers, the grains were distributed to them by the jaminder.

The old grain go down of the jaminder in course of time converted to the Tahsil office of the government.
In the year 1991-’93, the khamar or the grain go down was the office of the Regional Revenue Department of state govt. By the grace of Lord Allarnath the secured khamar still exists. In the first part of 20th century, there occurred a dangerous cyclone. The whole area was devastated. Lot of big trees got uprooted and fell lie on the ground. The age old houses were collapsed. The terrible sound of the cyclonic storm mingled with the cries of the living being including animals and birds of that village were really heart touching. Villagers of the ‘Palanka’ village were very much effected and afraid of the situation called for by nature. Dildar Hussein, the jamindar, was in deep grief stricken thought – what will happen to the khamar (go down)? If the grain go down is completely destroyed, then after the cyclone what the villagers will be fed ? Being disappointed, he reached at the Allarnath temple, situated in front of the khamar. Being a Muslim, he had no rights to enter the Hindu temple. Standing in front of the Lord Allarnath temple, with folded hands, he prayed to Lord Allarnath saying: “ Oh, my beloved Lord Allarnath, kindly bless to protect the khamar as well as the grains stored inside. If protected, then the villagers will be fed and they will be saved from starvation.”

Surprisingly, just after 15 minutes of his prayer to Lord Allarnath, at once, the cyclonic storm subsided miraculously. There was no harm to the khamar or the grains stored by Dildar Hussein.

Dildar never went to the temple nor offered any puja in his past days but he had undaunted selfless devotion to the Lord. Although a Muslim by religion, he understood the Almighty God is one. He never prayed for his self anything to the God but when the danger was faced, he prayed selflessly with folded hands to the Lord Allarnath for the sake of the villagers, for the welfare of the mankind. His selfless prayer melted the heart of the Lord.

Due to the grace of Lord Allarnath, the khamar got untouched by the devastating cyclone and at present the same khamar building stands as the revenue office there. In 1991 – ’93, it was a thatched house but presently it stands as a pucca building.

It is the grace of Lord Allarnath believed as Lord Vishnu, the Lord Jagannath.

Source : Information collected from Odia daily newspaper “PRAMEYA” dt.14th July 2015

Inside temple premises - Blogger & his wife on Dt.10.7.15.


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