A brief definition: Tâmrapothi is a device which reads your thought-process to get the question you want to ask, and then provides answers to your questions on blank metallic plates. The answers are indited only temporarily, and as soon as you close the the tâmrapothi, plates become blank again. Further details are provided below. (â = pronounced as alphabet "a" in "as").

	What it is ?
	Where it is ?
	What to do after you reach ?
	How to ask a question ?
	What is the fees ?
	How the pothi works ?

What it is ? Tâmra means Copper and Pothi means an oracle. From a simple external and physical point of view, the tâmrapothi is a small book-like object consisting of thirty-six copper plates (~ 3" x 8"). When one goes there, and thinks about any question or puts the question written on a paper on the tâmrapothi, the answers to the questions are temporarily indited on its pages. The thinking process or putting the paper-containing-questions is started after a short ritual (by the Brahmin who operates the pothi) which takes about half-a-minute. The answers are indited instantaneously and after the book is closed, they all disappear. The answers are read by the Brahmin who operates the pothi; but on a formal request one can see the letters by himself or herself. The answers come in the form of ancient old-styled prose, and the Brahmin interpretes them and explains after reading the prose aloud. As the letters/scripts are very small and the inditations are not too strong, it is usually read using a magnifying glass (lens). It is normal that one has questions and at times seeks some timely solution. The tâmrapothi at Kakatpur is a rare phenomenon, to the astonishment of many strictly scientific-minds, which serves the people having some needs. The barrier of language is nothing but a human-limitation. But for this divine-device, the language is no limitation. One can think the questions or write it in any language. However, the answers on this particular tâmrapothi comes only in Oriya language. You got to have a translator (from Oriya to your language). There is another pothi , made up of different metal, which can receive and give answer in various other languages (discussed somewehere later). Top of the page Based on authors experience(open to all, anyone can go):   Where it is ? The place is situated in the front end of KAKATPUR, a small town/moderate village in Orissa, India. The nearest major town is PIPILI, approximately 20 kms from BHUBANESWAR, capital of ORISSA. From BHUBANESWAR to PIPILI one can take a bus, and from there to KAKATPUR, there are some inconvenient conveniences. If affordable and you are in a group, its better to take a TAXI. The small ASHRAM or HUT is situated at the front-end of the village, just facing the town-SCHOOL. As its a small place, and has only one school at the front-end, you cannot miss it if you reach the town. PS: It is closed to public on every Wednesday, days-of solar or lunar eclipses, and during functions/events in Garoi ashram. Top of the page   What to do after you reach ? After you reach there, you first have to get a token and then wait till your number/name comes. How long you have to wait depends on how many people are already there in the line. The preferable time is early morning, so best is ito try to reach at about 7.00 am. Then you have a good chance before 10.00 or 11.00 am. Top of the page   How to ask a question ? After your term comes, get inside the inner room after wearing some clean dresses (preferable typical old-cultured Indian dhotis). The gents have to wear such a dress as it might not work with the largely-used trousers and pants. The ladies can wear a saree or traditional ladies-dresses. Make sure that you didnot take non-vegetarian food or alcohol the day you are seeking as the tâmrapothi will stop working till its again made alive by the operator. You can see there Pundit Amareswara Mishra along with the tâmrapothi. The tâmrapothi is a bunch (36 precisely) of thin copper plates. These plates are all blank (nothing is written) and collectively are all kept on ANOTHER LARGER SIZED METAL PLATE (a Bhubaneswari Yantra is inscribed on it). There are two ways to ask your question:     1. Hold a piece of chalk (will be provided there) and touch it with the forehead; then think your questions what you want to be answered. Then put the chalk in the ORACLE and open any page. The answers pop-up.   OR   2.Write your questions on a paper, fold it, put it on the ORACLE and open any page; the answers will pop-up. Top of the page     Author's note  The authors do not urge to believe on the absolute accuracies of the answers. But if the questions are not too hard (e.g. how to fly instantaneously), mostly the answers are satisfactory. Also, the phenomenon described is a fact and is open to one and all. Anyone can follow the route described above and examine in his/her own way. Prevalently, the oracle gives the answers in Oriya language, but I am aware, there is another one which is multi-lingual. I suppose, upon request, Pundit Amareswar Mishra will also use the multi-lingual roopâpothi (made up of silver); but I cannot promise wheteher he will definitely fulfill your wish. The roopâpothi gives answers in 14 different languages: Oriya, English, many south-Indian languages (e.g. Tamil), Hindi, and German etc. But it might be difficult for the operator to read these languages as he has no formal language-education. So its better to get the answers in tâmrapothi in Oriya and take help of a translator if you do not know Oriya. However, for sake of realizing the fact, you can request and try to see that. You can also carry a dictation machine and record what he speaks aloud to analyze later. In the whole event, you yourself can see the instantaneously appearing letters/sentences and explanations and that your thought-process is actually being read ? This oracle is probably one of the few existing wonders, that is open to all and can be verified.   Strange are the ways of the divine, which at times surpasses the human understanding to confirm the fact that, there is something beyond what we have perceived so far or what we can perceive. It is as foolishness as to reject a fact out of prejudice as to accept certain things blindly. Accepting blindly is the characteristic of a gullible mind; at the same time rejecting facts because of limited experience, knowledge, exposure, and prejudice is a strong indication of "lack of imagination, vision, and understanding". Top of the page   How much to pay ? The answer is: as you like. There is no fixed rate, no price, no demand, no verification. The service is for free, but the Brahmin has to live, has to maintain his family and survive. There is a small cloth, on which you can put whatever amount you feel like, depending on your satisfaction, will, and financial abilities. Top of the page   How the pothi works ? By choosing to answer this question, which rather is very abstract, the authors have chosen a difficult task. Because, only a mystic knows the mystery of his mysticism. But below is an explanation which was partly answered by the divine itself and partly by one of the five disciples of His Holiness Baba Shri Buddhanath Das.   As for every machine, there are two aspects: Science or the theory, and technology or the engineering part. Drawing a roughly parallel comparision, the working of the tamrapothi has also two parts: there is a SADHANA behind; the Science part there are YANTRAS and MANTRAS; the technical aspect.   1) The sadhana behind: SHUNYA SADHANA and and the motivation behind the creation:   (The following answer was by the divine (English translation of a theme from the tâmrapothi) after the question was put.)  The answers in the tamrapothi are given by Mahapurusha Achyutananda vide Lord Jagannath. At that time (~500 years before), in Orissa, there were no proper medication facilities and other life-saving and problem-solving avenues. Hence, this tâmrapothi was instrumented by Mahapurusha Achyutananda as a divine gift, specially for suggesting Ayurvedic medicines that will be affordable and available to the seekers. Even though medicine was the primary focus, it was/is capable of providing every type of solution. He had instrumented it in Orissa (Udra desha) but the tâmrapothi 's service is for the whole mankind. It remained hidden for a while (few hundred years) and is again recovered at this time to do the crucial Yugakarma (duty of the era).   Mahapurusha Achyutanada was a Shunya Sadhak. "Shunya Shunya MahaShunya, tamadhye Parambrahma". This sadhana, in a simplified sense, means: to reach the Sun, which is a symbolic for the ParamBrahman, with one's soul. One who can reach the Sun with his soul and come back, gets the ability to know the answers to everything in the Universe (BiswaBrahmandaGyana). He also gets the ability to enter to any other body living or non-living (Jada athaba Jivanta). In this way, he (Mahapurusha) answers in the tâmrapothi and the tâmrapothi has the instrumental capacity to survive one solar-era (i.e. till this Sun is there the pothi can work, until he himslef wants to take it back). Also who has become successful in ShunyaSadhana has no limitations regarding language, as language is only a human-limitation, the thought-waves are all the same. The Sun, as we see it, is not a stand-alone naked body. It has 10 different layers or rings (solar layers). When a sadhak performs the ShunyaSadhana, he successively penetrates each of the layers. Each layer has its own property, and bestows different knowledge. By doing this sadhana, Mahapurusha Achyutananda had acquired every knowledge. No wonder, the pothi answers to every question, be it spiritualism, illness, Science, or society. One who succeeds in ShunyaSadhana, has no limitation anymore, he can be emerged in God and also can maintain his/her own identity. In another language he becomes a part of the Parambrahman. This was also the reason, that he had written (could write) so many literature, including concept of body-spirit-soul, atoms, molecules, nuclear science, solar science, space science, and very high spiritualism etc. The "Shunya Yantra" is a symbol which offers this knowledge; if one sees carefully it consists of ten circles representating ten solar layers and the dot (bindu) representating the parambrahman. By virtue of this ShunyaSadhana, Mahapurusha Achyutananda has instrumented this answering device in the form of a pothi. Practically, he could make it in anything (living or non-living), as a ShunyaSadhak acquires these capabilities.   2) The working-technique behind: YANTRAS and MANTRAS Below is an explanation of the working technique behind this (seemingly) unusual phenomenon; the explanation is given by one of the 5 disciples of His Holiness Baba Shri Buddhanath Das: His holiness (Baba Shri Buddhanath Das) uses to answer via his Tâmra (copper) and Roopâ (silver) pothis handled by Pundit Amareswara Mishra, Kakatapur, Orissa, India. The tâmrapothi is kept on the "Bhubaneswari Yantra" made of Copper. In all the pages of tâmrapothi several Yantras are inscribed. When the mantra are applied to Yantras of tâmrapothi, the Yantras disappear and the thinking of the person and his query and answers are inscribed as letters in tâmrapothi. The same is the case of roopâpothi (Silver Pothi). Tâmrapothi inscribes only the Oriya scripts, where as the roopâpothi inscribes several languages e.g. English, Hindi, Parshi, Arabic, etc. The detail procedure will be narrated subsequently. Tâmrapothi was recovered from a well of Abadhuta Math, at Konark, in Puri district, Orissa, India, where Baba Artatrana Das is the presiding Seer and roopâpothi was recovered from Gupteswar, the Shiva Khsetra, Koraput district, Orissa, India by his holiness (Baba Shri Buddhanath Das) and was handed over to Pundit Amareswara Mishra to operate the same. The sunâpothi (Gold pothi) will be recovered from Paradweep and we are waiting for the said day. how it works: According to my conception it has a mechanism just like that of a television. As you know a television set has a machine (Yantra) who through Arial/Antenna (another Yantra) receives the photos and the voice (as electric transmission) from the space and applying energy (electricity) we are able to see the picture using a picture type (Yantra) and hear the sound. Likewise, the pothi is kept on a plate on which Bhubaneswari Yantra has been carved. You may think of it as the machines of television set. Pothi consists of several plates and several Yantras have been carved on each of the plates of the pothi. Pundit Amareswara Mishra (popularly & locally called Bhaina) uses a tâlapatra-pothi (palm-leaf pothi) where mantra have been written. He applies those mantra to the pothi. The Yantras disappear the moment energy is applied to it and those lines are converted to letters and a person could read the scripts. Then the question arises how the answers come from space and how the pothi reads the mind of the person who is putting the question: all the thought process (though waves) of a human being and the work he had done has been transmitted to the space (in a subtle frequency domain) and stored therein. The time you are putting the question the thought process is transmitted to the space and through pothi you are able to know the questions put by you and Yantra  brings the answers from the space which has already been stored therein. The truth is: all answers are already there somewhere (spiritual people call it SHUNYA or "vaccum") and it is grabbed forcibly by some means. Nothing is new or was not known before, the question is when you know it. Ramadas (one of the thirteen previous incarnations of Baba Shri Buddhanath Das) was the only disciple of the Mahapurusha Achyutananda, who was able to read the mind of his guru through his Bhaba (feelings). His guru has invented this procedure and execution part is done by Ramadas. Guru and Shisya are one and the same. Having two bodies and one Bhaba and throught process. As you know Baba Buddhanath Das is the 13th birth of Ramadas. If anything is not stored in the space the question of the questioner directly comes to the mind of Baba Shri Bhudhanath Das who sends the answers to the space and pothi attracts the same from the space and Bhaina could read the same. I am having the knowledge of several pothis in Orissa and one pothi at the South (of India). I am having no knowledge about the south pothi. Among the pothis discovered in Orissa, it appears all the pothis belong to Mahapurasha Achyutananda except one which belongs to Nabaratna (nine GEMS) of king Vikramaditya. There can not be any dispute regarding the techinque but the operater of pothi have to apply the energy (Mantra) perfectly to revitalise the Yantra to letters. The operator should be a Sadhaka to apply Mantra (energy) to Yantra (machine). Since all of them are not able to do this perfectly, so always the true answers are not coming on pothi. Mahapurusha Achyutananda had written thousands of books, but in fact he had not himself written all, the moment he thinks about the subject, Ram Das used to write the same immediately on tâlapatra pothi (palm leaves), tâmra pothi (copper), roopâpothi (silver) and sunâpothi (Gold) by means of Pancha (five) kalam (pen). Top of the page Efforts are made to add some photos of the pothi,  the location, the Brahmin,  the questioning process, and the  answering process.