Soul transfer ritual

When the new deities are made,they are carried inside the inner sanctum of the temple and placed in front of the old deities ,facing them. Nobody is allowed inside for a darshan of the Lord. not even the temple priest .The three new deities are carried inside only by descendants of the Daitapati family. The three Daitapatis must be blind folded .The three Daitapatis members fast and meditate the whole day inside the temple.

They must bind a piece of Lord Jagannath's cloth around their hands before the transfer of soul. They should not have shaved since the first day of the search party procession. This is also considered as the disappearance ceremony of Jagannath. All the Daitapatis do not shave for ten days. All the houses os Daitapatis required to have white washed. The children and all the members of Daitapati family wear new clothes on the day of the soul transfer.

It is very difficult to express what Brahman is. It cannot be seen or touched. Our eyes are blind folded and our hands are covered with cloth when we carry it. Yet a powerful feeling is very much present,like a rabbit jumping in our hands. This is our experience. Beyond this, exactly Brahman is so powerfully felt, nobody is able to say.

Only after midnight the soul transfer ceremony goes silently.It is a mystery that no one has seen the Brahma Padartha till now. During the midnight , the old deities are carried on the shoulders of the Daitapatis and buried in the Koili Baikuntha before dawn. There are three separated graves for the three deities.

 After Soul transfer ritual

Devotees can again come inside for darshan. Lord Jagannath,Lord of Universe and his festival draws attention of many devotees including Hindu,Muslim and Christian arround the world.The soul is never born,nor it ever dies,nor does it become only after being born. For,it is unborn, eternal ,everlasting and primeval; even though the body is slain, the soul is not.