A retired schoolteacher has donated almost his entire pension amounting to Rs 20 lakh to the Puri Shree Jagannath temple. He has promised to donate another Rs 10 lakh to the temple fund.

Talking to The Telegraph, the 69-year-old schoolteacher Rabindra Kumar Das said: “There was a time when I was not able to get a square meal in my village in Balasore. I had come to Puri and cried a lot, asking for His blessings. God has given me everything and my life is blessed. By the Lord’s grace my only son is settled as a bank officer. All my three daughters are married and well settled. What more could I ask from God? What should I do with the money that I get as a pension. I have offered the Lord what I earned. It should not be treated as a donation.”