The annual Rath yatra that takes Lord Jagnnath, Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra to their aunt’s house, Gundicha temple, is a spectacle that everybody waits for. The grand chariots, the attractive idols, the vitality that’s crammed with love and devotion, it’s all so pure and pious that it may possibly carry tears to the eyes.
For a lot of, this competition is a time when the boundaries between the mortal world and the religious realm blur. The deities, leaving their abode, are seen as reaching out to those that can’t come to the temple, together with the spirits.
