There is a deep connection between man and food. There is hardly any person who does not like food. Once we went to Jagannath Puri for darshan. We had a very good darshan and the rule there is that the rice offered there must be taken. That offering is made in the evening and we got late in reaching. We had a train the next day morning, so we were very sad that we did not get the offering to God. Just then a Pandit came and we told him what was on our mind. He said I will take ₹5000. We thought that if we do not take the offering then our coming here will be in vain. We gave him ₹5000. Then he brought rice offering in a small leaf bowl. We were surprised to see it, we gave ₹5000 for so little rice. But then we thought that it does not matter, if we could not get it today then we would have regretted it all our life. Those few rice were very precious for us.

Because it is said that whatever bhog is prepared in the kitchen is done under the supervision of Maa Lakshmi.
The prasad available at any pilgrimage place is generally called prasad, but the prasad available in the Jagannath temple in Orissa is considered ‘Mahaprasad’. In the kitchen of the temple, 7 pots are placed one above the other to cook prasad and everything is cooked on wood. In this process, the ingredients in the top pot get cooked first and then gradually the food gets cooked one after the other towards the bottom, that is, the food in the pot placed on the top gets cooked first. We do not regret paying so much money for the small quantity of rice that we got. Because for Hindus, God’s prasad means a lot.