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THE
BHAWAN:
It is situated at 5300 feet MSL. A sacred spot! A Sure resort of beatitude!!
The journey's end!!! Before entering, yatris have to wade through a small
stream, called Charan Ganga. The place where the image is installed and
worshipped is small, but well illumined. The hall in front is spacious enough to
accommodate hundreds of pilgrims. Yatris are admitted in lines well
regulated. The long unending queues of yatris jostling and, chanting greet the
MOTHER at long last seated on a high pedestal well decorated. The beautiful
image of the MOTHER in floral decoration feasts the eyes, but for a
fleeting second,; like the darsan of Sri Balaji at Tirumala, where several kinds
of hardships faced by the yatries during the days of journey and
thousands of rupees spent on everything end in a split second. Though the darsan
ends in a flash, itself the MOTHER sees the supplicant from top to toe, and
knows what he requires and when it has to be granted. After offering prayers with
breaking coconuts the yatris move slowly kissing the damp chiseled walls,
desiring to partaking the divinity embedded in all part of that holiest of holy
place. The yatris as they emerge hail the MOTHER with faces wreathed in smiles,
hearts going heavenwards and souls overflowing with inexplicable bliss. And with
red-scavers over their heads - a practice observed here by every pilgrim. Another
object of adoration is the Siva lingam embedded into the cave wall, facing the
MOTHER's imag, Paying obeisance to Lord Maheswar they finally come out.
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