| Temples & Legends of Bengal |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
THE TEMPLES IN BIRBHUM |
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| Viswa-Bharati
University has added a very great importance to Shantiniketan but it should not be at the
cost of the original idea of Maharshi Debendra Nath Tagore that Shantiniketan was first a
temple thrown open to the world and then an educational institution. At the moment
Shantiniketan attracts people from all parts of the world and the annual convocations of
the Viswa-Bharati University have become a sort of mela where thousands of people
congregate. But the real Shantiniketan is seen in the peaceful and deep religious
atmosphere when the prayers are held under the Chattim tree where sat Maharshi Debendra
Nath Tagore and gave his message. BAKRESWAR Bakreswar is a place of great pilgrimage in the district of Birbhum. The village is located about 6 miles to the northwest of Dubrajpur railway station on the Ondal- sainthia railway section of the Eastern Railway. Siuri the district headquarters of Birbhum district is 14 miles from Bakreswar. The village is well connected by roads but there are no regular conveyances. Taxis or bullock-carts are available at Siuri or at Ondal. The State Government of Bengal is now running occasional visits to Bakreswar in well appointed passenger buses for encouraging tourism. There is great potential for developing tourism at Bakreswar because of the temples and the hot water springs of medicinal value. Bakreswar does not find place as a Pithasthan or an Upapithasthan in the Tantras. But tradition mentions that many Tantriks have attained Siddhi by their tantrik practices at Bakreswar. Aghori Baba is one of the well-known Tantriks considered as a Sidhapurush of Bakreswar. The antiquity of the place has not yet been fixed. But about its hoary past there could be no doubt. Time has stood still at Bakreswar. |
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