Jaya Jagannath,
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Sri Gundicha Rath Yatra
and all associated events at Sri Jagannath Temple complex, Bangalore
justified a guts wrenching majestic success of will power that can
melt any rock solid obstacle. With the completion of Rath yatra, the
major task infront now is to plan and proceed with Lord Jagannath
Temple Completion.
Points of Appreciations :
- At first on behalf
of all clusters of devotees community, we are whole heartedly
thankful to Lord Jagannath for blessing us with all the strength
and stamina to execute this grand celebration with absolutely zero
mishap.
- A Warm hug thanks to
all the Devotees of Lord Jagannath and the complete Odia community
for participating in this event with the height of energy and
spirit.
- A Hats off gratitude
to all the trust members of Sri Jagannath Temple trust for framing
a well planned roadmap, schedule quite upfront and then completing
all required tasks well before time. Major contribution in terms
of time and effort were given by Sri. Kamakshi Panda, Sri. Siba
Ram Baral, Sri. Chakradhar Swain, Sri. Utkal Mohanty, Sri. Hara
Mohapatra, Sri. Manoj Patra, Sri. Prakash Samantray, Sri. Binaya
Pani.
- A stand up ovation
to the gladiators, the real achievers of this mega event : The
Sevayats who could devote their tireless days and sleepless nights
for materializing all tasks. Sri. Hiranmay Dash, Sri. Sitansu
Mohapatra, Sri. Saroj Tripathy, Sri. Pranab Rana, Sri. Satya kama
Mishra, Sri. Sarat Samal, Sri. Ramesh Chandra Behera, Mr.
Ganesh Giri.
- Special thanks to
few extraordinary personalities who completed few unique tasks.
Sri. Lokanath Sahoo for settling temple accounts, Sri. Giridhar
Das for re-coloring the deities, Sri. Utkal mohanty for
arranging all printed materials, banners, posters, wall papers and
hand outs, Sri. Siba Ram Baral for arranging invitation thru SMS
to all the tens of thousands of devotees as per the available set
of cell numbers in the temple register.
- Kudos to Sri.
Prakash Samantray for arranging unique feedback forms and free
distribution of pens en marked with Temple name to all devotees
bringing in a landmark to our service to mankind. These feedback
forms helped us get opinions, suggestions, remarks and even few
grievances from all devotees, thus a list of whole new unique
ideas of how to progress further, a huge list of appreciations and
a few points of unnoticed areas of improvement.
- Appreciations for
Sponsorship : Prasad Sevan on Rath Yatra day by Sri. Prakash
Samantray, Sri. Hara Mahapatra, Sri. Binay Pani and Sri. Kamakhya
Panda and friends. Prasad Sevan on Bahuda by Owners of Vishal
Restaurant, Marathahali and their friends ( We have received many
appreciations for the delicious food. people had comeback
appreciating the prasad for taste, quality, arrangements and
discipline ). Ropes for pulling the chariot by Sri. Manoranjan
Aran, The complete sixteen sets of new dresses for all the three
deities by Smt. Sanat Nalini Das, Expenditure on Puja amenities by
Sri. Kishore Agarwal. Refreshment drinks, arranging for cold water
spraying provisions, the complete expenditure on Tent house,
drinking Water, Generator, electric fittings, Light fittings, A
heavy duty bicycle and a high power Inverter that can light the
complete set of electric fittings of the temple during electric
off hours were sponsored by various patrons of the temple
including Sri. Sandip Kumar Panda, Sri. Prasanna Sabat, Sri.
Debeesantosh Prakash, Sri. Rajani Kanta Mohanty, Sri. Harekrishna
Patnaik, Sri. Visgnesh Rudra Dash and Sri. Loknath Sahoo.
Apologies if we miss out someone.
- A richy treaty
thanks to Sri. Sarat Samal, the temple site engineer for
coordinating and completing a real huge mountain of tasks ( Mausi
maa temple arrangements - Leveling the ground, provision for
excess Rain water drainage, Pathway, Stage, Floor carpeting, Rain
proof roofing, Electric and tent arrangements, Arrangements for
Tent house, Water tanker, Generator, electric fittings, Light
fitting, Photographer arrangement, making provision for a stage
for event coverage
Chariot Log brake, Ropes for Chariot, Repainting of faded areas,
Jagannath Temple white washing, Painting the grills and gates,
Internal finishing of temple hall / Trimming of trees / Repairing
gates / cleaning up and mending temple surroundings ( to ensure
rain water won't lodge their ), Covering of open drain near temple
main gate ).
- Hats off standing
ovation to Sri. Saroj Tripathy, Sri. Pranab Rana and Sri. Sitanshu
Mohapatra for Distributing invitation letters and posters to all
religious shrines, ashrams, temples and communal bodies and on the
day of Rath Yatra and Bahuda for preparing a total four sets of
Spectacular tahias and two Golden brooms.
We are so blessed that we
are associated with such multi skilled extraordinary personalities.
Let Jagatara natha prabhu Sri. Jagannath bless all of them with the
glitters of health, wealth, peace and prosperity in life. Let Lord
Jagannath give us the power and stamina to complete Sri Jagannath
Temple soon. Jaya Jagannath.
Regards
Team Nilachakra
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