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Kandhara:The well and Mahima sect of Bhimabhoi.

On the way to Baudh from Rairakhol in Odisha state of India, a lesser known place of Kandhara.A small Mutt and the famous well there.From in

Bhimabhoi and the famous well of Kandhara.Bhimabhoi had no formal education but his teachings are now tought in university.His teachings are inscribed on the walls of United Nations.

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United Nations and santhakabi Bhimabhoi.

Today on this day of 25 the Feb, 2021, the 148th Mahima mela started for 3 days at Joranda, Odisha the holy place for many Mahima followers.

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Bhima Bhoi

SAINT POET BHIMA BHOI, with a mysterious birth, was born blind. Being adopted by a ‘Kandha’ barren couple , he was ‘kandha’ by caste. After demise of the fostering couple, Bhima was on his own and served another ‘kandha’ family as ‘kuthia’, an employment for boys of tender age with food only in the mess of the employer. Such an employment is meant purely for up-keeping domestic animals, mostly tendering them in the forest.

He lived in Kankanapada is a village surrounded by deep forest of Redakhol in Odisha, India. 

Bhima had a wonderful singing power with a bewitching tone by gift of God. Besides he had a rare habit of coining words and composing them, which he developed listening to Puranas, Bhagabata, and other Hindu religious scriptures, ceremonial oration of which, very often, take place in rural areas of India. Forests around his village provided him enough freedom to sing aloud. 

What was required was a divine initiation in him which Mahima Gossain did at an auspicious moment to flourish afterwards to become the famous voice of the world and was initiated into Alekh Brahma sect.

Penance and austerity prescribed for realisation of Alekh Brahma could not satisfy his instincts, and thus reprimanded by Mahima Gossain. He, too, was refused entry to Joranda, the prime pit of Alekh Mahima Dharma. He argued for “sahajsadhana”, easy way of happiness achieved by prayer of Sri Guru Alekh Mahima rinsed by complete and selfless surrender as said in Tell-19 of ‘Stuti Chintamani’. He was never seen in the robe of ‘kumbhipat’, and had a family lifewith four wives (one of them, namely, Annapurna is said to be his spiritual consort), and a son, Kapileswar, who died at the age 18 and buried in the precinct of his Ashram at Khaliapali in the district of Subarnapur in Odisha. 

But visioning Alekh Brahma brimming his soul he was allowed to move as the mouth piece of Mahima Dharma, and thus universalisation and phylosophization of Mahima Dharma begun. He moved and moved on with his ‘khanjani’, ( a musical instrument), finally to settle at Khaliapali, in Odisha, India where he lived for 18 years and took Samadhi (emancipation). He sang here the glories of Alekh Mahima ,with due rituals of Mahima dharma on an earthen pit made for this purpose, every evening where people from far and near gathered.

Bhima Bhoi strongly denounced Karmakanda, promoted by the Vedasand owned by Brahmins as their birthright, and idolatry, the practice of capturing God or gods in an image. He believed that for a communion with the Creator no medium is necessary. What required is the purity of the soul and unconditional surrender. This being against the established practice, he had to face a lot of opposition, to the extent of being beaten in the street. But he sang, and sang without fear and frivolities to make it a mass movement in course of time, and it was. 

Bhima Bhoi lived, thought and acted inspired by the vision of humanity evolving towards a world peace and harmony. Stuti Chintamni is a giant book of prayer with two thousand couplets which Bhima Bhoi sang with a spiritual impulse. Books like ‘Adi Anta Gita’, ‘Brahma Nirupan Gita’, ‘Bhajana Mala’, ‘Nirbeda Sadhana’, ‘Sruti Nishedha Gita’, ‘Chautisha’ add to his credit.