Prophet of the great deluge

Most of us talks of Mayan calendar, Nostradamus prophecy and keep counting our days according to that. But we forget one Indian messiah, a foreteller, astrologer of high order a popular poet and a prophet of mankind. He is none other than Mahapurusha Achyutananda, one of the renowned Panchasakha Poets of the medieval age who is famous for his ‘Bhavishyat Malika’. Still people of entire Odissa and Eastern India attribute every happening to that of great 'Malika' of Achuytananda. You often hear ‘this happens that happened is written in malika”.

Achyutananda was one of the great medieval thinkers,poet and astrologers. He is famous for his Yantra and sheer knowledge of future. A maxim in oriya goes like this “Agat Bhavishya jane Achyut.’meaning achyut only knows the future. Though he was one of the staunch propounders of Jagannath cult, he was famous for monotheism. In sunya samhita he advises his followers to worship sunya, vacuum since god is present neither in any form or idol. He says ‘look within’. The entire world is present within. Achyutnanda narrates the types of Pranayam, control over respiration, and the presence of all healing systems within body. He was also the author of several other books like Amara Jumar etc.

He had his Math (monastery) at Nemal which is in and around 30 K.M. from cuttack, the oldest city of Odissa. In every Jyestha Purnima this math arranges a grand mela (fare) where pink and yellow clad sadhus (ascetics) visit this place from far off places. It goes on whole night. You hear the bhajans, religious discourse, and bali bhogas on the sandy banks of sacred river Chitrotpala. Chitrotpala is famous for its ancient maritime activity which has been identified as Cheli ta lo by the great Chinese piligrim Hiuen Tsang.

The people of Orissa born hearing Malika and die fearing Malika. It is seated deep not only in the odiya folktale but very much in odiya psyche. When you talk of that inevitable and unforeseen great deluge it would be incomplete without Achyutananda.