Bhagwan Shree Hari performs Jaagran on Ekadashi along with saints and devotees.
Bhagwan Shree Hari performs Jaagran on Ekadashi along with saints and devotees.
Suvrat said:-
O king, on that day, though He was able and generous, He behaved like a human being; and as He wanted to protect the religion, He observed the vow of fast on Ekadashi. 1.
At night, having entered the assembly hall, and having occupied a high seat, He recited the name of Narayana, He listened to Ekadashi Mahatmya, as told by ancient sage Vasistha. 2.
He kept Himself awake till late night. He heard the sages and other people singing the merits of Bhagavan, which pleased the devotees. He ordered them to continue the singing. 3.
Then in the third part of the night, when the devotees were engaged in singing with clapping, He got down from his seat and proceeded towards the kitchen of Jaya. 4.
Having cooked various dishes, Rama and other ladies were taking rest for a while; at that time from far, they saw their most cherish-able person coming over there; they got up, bowed down before Him and offered Him a seat. 5.
The Lord sat on it and saw a big heap of Jalebi and a well- arranged heap of khaja, white in colour, in the background. 6.
At that time Lalita, as if knowing His mind; asked the God, shall this be sufficient or should we prepare more? 7.
At that time he told her, O princess, if a I am not serving the meals to the sages this amount will hardly suffice for the first service; and that only by the spiritual power grace of the ladies. 8.
At that time that pure- minded lady spoke to the Lord with a smile, O Lord, do you think this to be for the day of Dwadashi only? No, know it to be meant for five days. 9.
O Lord, I know the power of the touch of Your hand. Unless You have touched this heap of food, one is always doubtful in his mind regarding the adequacy of the food. 10.
After hearing these words of that lady, Shri Hari bowed down his face and shook his head as if in tension. Then Rama took him to another room and showed him other dishes which were under preparation. 11.
After going there, he saw may ladies : Ganga, Yamuna, Rama and Reva. He saw them preparing the dishes for the Lord. 12.
The heap of the pearl-like sweet balls and full swollen breads/ cake looked so similar that only their yellow and white colour car differentiate it. 13.
There he saw sweet balls called churna white in colour due to the cover of frozen ghee on it; and ten verities of sthiraka white due to the double cover of sugar. 14.
Then the Lord saw/Yamuna & Rama preparing a dish called sanyava the frying pan was put on a big stove and both of them were moving it simultaneously with a wooden ladle. 15.
Then he saw (the maid) “Nathiben” preparing a dish named Phullavadi which was blown up and preparing a dish named Bhajiya busy with the preparation of Sutarpheni. 16.
Elsewhere, this Lord of sages saw Aamari (name of woman devotee) who had prepared a variety of vegetables and Gulaladevi who prepared good a dish of vadam and then was busy with preparing the dish called Manda. 17.
Then he came towards the heap of Dahithra, Ganthiya and Ghughara and saw Amrutaben standing there with a smiling face thus he came to know that these dishes are prepared by here. 18.
There he was two wives of the King, Kumuda and Jashuba Who were again and again asking for meals to their maids for bringing milk pots and preparing a dish called Dudhapak. (a tasteful liquid of food containing milk, rice and sugar). 19.
There he saw the younger sister Panchali and Naniba bringing the dishes named Barphi and Penda prepared by expert cooks, to Ramaba, the elder one. (These are the names of the sisters of the King named Uttama in the Gray-trans.) 20.
Thus he saw Ladu, Yati, Jivi, uma, Kumari, Kusha and many other ladies engrossed/engaged/bush in their work for the satisfaction of the lord. 21.
In another house he saw other Kshatirya ladies also (busy in cooking for the satisfaction of the Lord,) named Kshema, Amala, Amari, Aditi, Phulla, Ratnamala, Rati and Devika. 22.
This noble hearted one (King) saw the dish prepared and under preparation with great efforts, for the God, were equal to the dishes prepared by the Brahmin ladies. 23.
He praised/appreciated all the ladies faithful/obedient to Jaya praised appreciated all the pious and noble minds ladies, attentive in thus cooking, obedient to Jaya and Jaya after looking at their efforts for the preparation. 24.
He was very much pleased at his heart in his mind when he came to know that the quantity of these dishes is in twice or twice compared to the quantity of the dishes at Lalita’s house and number of the dishes is the same. 25.
Then he told the maid cooks that remaining dishes viz., rice, curry and Dal may be prepared tomorrow morning and then he returned to his house. At that time even the cocks started cuckooing i.e. it was a day break. 26.
O King ! Shri Hari kept awake (all the night) with his own devotees and then the Lord,the knower of all rituals, in the morning went to the river for taking bath and perform his daily rituals.. 27.
Thus ends the thirty-eighth chapter entitled, ‘Narration of description of supervision of the cooking arrangements by the Lord Shri Hari at the time of Prabodhini Ekadashi celebrations,’ in the third prakaran of Satsangi Jivan, the life story of Lord Narayan, also titled as Dharmashastra. (the rules of the code of conduct). 38