Saturday, October 30, 2010

Deoghar: The Home Of Gods

Deoghar, from the name its clear its the home of Gods, lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, is about 229 km from Patna (capital of Bihar) and 322 km from Ranchi (capital of Jharkhand) and about 315 km from Kolkata (capital of West Bengal). It's a great place for tourists attraction for its historical importance.



In Deoghar, lies the Grand Temple of Baba Baidyanath which is one of the twelve maha jytir-shivlings across the world , thats why Deoghar is also name as Baba Baidyanathdham. In Shravan, people comes from across the world to offer Gangajal brought from Uttarwahini Ganga in Sultanganj(105 Km away). People comes in numbers, walking barefooted taking Gangajal in their hand, travel 105kms with so much ease, due to their faith in God and offers the Jal at end to Lord Shiva.



According to legend, Ravana had done tapp for so many years to please Lord Shiva. After the tap, he asked him to provide his jyotirling to him, which he'd establish in Lanka. But the Gods didn't want this to happen. On his way back, he felt to get down for the urination( since Ganga maa went inside him), but the shivling can't be kept down, so he searched for someone, and found Baiju( who was secretly Lord Ganesha) and told him to keep it, and threatened him not to keep it down. As he left, Baiju seeking the opportunity put the Shivling down, and went back. Ravan did urination for a long time, by which a lake was made, which we called Shiv Ganga. After coming from there, when he saw the shivling down, he tried to take it up, but was not possdble. So, he hit shivling hard, which was there in the shivling for all those years. But now a reconstruction is made over it, to avoid any leg contact of the pilgrims. Vishwakarma made all the temple in the whole night. And thats how Baba Baidhyanath temple came.


This is a real great temple to watch, to feel the internal peace, which everyone is trying to find today.