Annakut Darshan offered in front of Thakorji of her pooja by Lalitaba.
Suvrat said:-
O King, then Lalita, as instructed by Shri Hari, sanctifying the place, arranged various types of food in a circular way, in front of the Lord whom she worshipped every day. 1
With Jaya and other ladies, with much respect, she seated (idol of) Shri Hari, on a spongy seat, and worshipped him with clothes, sandal paste, vermillion, saffron and flowers, etc. 2
Jaya, then placed a golden shining round plate for food in front of (idol of) Hari. Then Rama arranged small bowls in a semi-circular shape. 3
Ratiba, brought a shining silver pot, full of water, and placed it in the southern direction. Then Lalita’s younger sister brought a golden pot in front of the Lord. 4
All the other ladies, viz. Kamalaba, Ratiba, Fullajaya, Revti and others, showing their own skills started arranging everything to please the Lord. 5
Then Amari, Devika, Kshema, Fully, Rama, Amala and other ladies brought the eatables made by them with great pleasure. 6
Showing their skills in preparation of food, they offered everything to the Lord to please him. 7
Then, Lalita saw all the hundred and one food items and offered them to the Hari (with devotion). 8
With a gentle smile Rama said to Lalita ‘please request Shri Hari to eat.’ We are also longing to see him eating. 9 O King! Speaking this way, she (Lalita) also stood in front of idol of Lord, with folded hands, gazing at His lotus-like face. 10
Then, Lord Shri Krishna Himself manifested in the idol, and took some pieces of cooked food and sweets with his hands and drank the fresh water in between very happily. Beautiful eyed and smiling Radha was standing near and fanning him. 11
All the ladies and gentlemen, devotees, looked at Lord Shri Krishna (with Radha) who was very dear to them, manifested in person, before them, with much surprise. Then, pleasing his devotees and asking the names of the food items to Rama, Lord Krishna also ate the food. Again and again, He asked the names of the ladies as ‘who has prepared this very tasty and sweet item’ (the food items) and praised them all. 12-14
All the sages, people and all the ladies standing at a distance saw the God who was very dear to them and were very much pleased. 15
The God Hari, who eats very little, ate a bit and wished get up, then Lalita made him sit and started singing this Ashtapadi (a poem of eight stanzas). 16
Lalitaba’s Ashtapadigaan
O Lord, enjoy the food to Your satisfaction. How come You think of departing so quickly? O pleasure giving Lord! Leaving Your childlike innocent behaviour, please, stay in my beautiful palace, enjoy different delicious varieties of eatables and delicious juices, served in the gold bowls. 17
Lord, enjoy the aromatic white rice, white Payas, curry made with mustard and curd, Laddu made with (small) pieces of dates and matchless cake, which give pleasure to good-eaters. 18
O Lord! Please taste these very big sized Mandas, Laddus made with ghee and sugar, juicy preparation of curds, round fried Puris, very soft Rotis, and two round Vadas made of grinded Udad dal. 19
O Lord! Please, taste these dishes prepared by a lady, who is devoted to You and who is also expert in cooking. They are: white Papadis various vegetables brought from different places, sweet bananas with ghee and sugar, and semi-circular Ghugaras fried in ghee. 20
‘O Lord! this is Your favourite cucumber, these are the papads with the taste of black pepper; Jalebees, and here is the whipped curds, curds mixed with cummin seeds, salt and pepper properly churned; nicely heated, flavoured, and filtered ghee filled in this golden vessel. Please taste them.’ 21
O Lord! Kindly please taste this rice cooked by me, garnished with camphor, cumin seeds, pepper and salt and mixed with curds, without leaving any portion out of it. (I know) It is Your favourite dish. 22
O Lord! Please eat this Your favourite fresh white butter mixed with sugar, which You always held in Your hand. Please drink this chilled water brought from the river Ganga, which is filtered with the help of pure white cloth, and flavoured with a scented plant. 23
O Lord! You please, wash your lotus-like hands and mouth. Accept (these) betel leaves and rest on (this) comfortable seat and preach your devotees and finally stay forever before my eyes. 24
Suvrat said:-
In this way Lalita slowly made Him eat with pleasing sweet words. Then Rama and other ladies praised smiling Lalita. 25
The Lord also pleased those ladies while chatting (with them). He again ate a little and pleased them and then cleaned his mouth with little water. 26
Then He took in his hand the betel leaves, betel nuts and some mouth freshener offered by Jaya, and ate them. 27
In between Radha accepted a little from the plate as Prasad of The Lord and then, both of them again took the form of idols. 28
Shri Hari (Himself), when heard about everything what had happened, was pleased like His devotees. Then He directed the eminent sages, His attendants and all others to quickly take their food. 29
Thus ends the ninteenth chapter entitled, ‘Narration of description of enjoying of the food, by actually appeared Lord Krishna and Radha, at the time of Annakoototsava,’ in the third prakaran of Satsangi Jivan, the life story of Lord Narayan, also titled as Dharmashastra, (the rules of the code of conduct). 19