UDIPI LORD SRI KRISHNA
Once many centuries ago a ship was in great distress due to a storm,
Meanwhile the
great seer Sri Madhavacharya who was in meditation
Could, with his
powers divine, sense the storm and the ship’s agitation.
When the Saint
with his yogic powers was able to calm the storm,
The ship with
crew made landfall at Malpe, no one coming to harm.
When the
grateful captain offered anything in the ship to the seer as reward,
Madhavacharya
wanted Krishna’s sandalpaste covered statue he knew was in the
ship’s
ward.
The great saint
, after required rituals consecrated the deity;
Thus was born
the great Lord Krishna temple at Udipi.
It is said that
when a certain Kanakadasa was denied darshan , his caste considered low,
Then the Krishna
deity turned around to enable his devotee’s darshan, through a window.
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