PURI
The Abode of Lord Jagannath

The food thus cooked is offered first to the Lord and next to the devotees numbering about 10 thousands every day. Needless to say, the kitchen must be gignatic, and it is the largest of its kind in the world. It is estimated that as many as twenty thousand people are dependent on the temple with six thousand males working as temple personnel is all departments of administrators round the clock. The hierarchy of priests is divided into 37 orders, and moreover, people belonging to every caste and profession are engaged for cooking and there are hundreds of them working on regular salary. This casteless  observed in cooking accounts for the emergence of the term 'Sarvam Jagannatham', signifying that there prevails in Jagannath temple only ONENESS and the Lord encourages it in several ways.

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