Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 7: The 127th birth anniversary (Mahajayanti) of Jagadguru Bhagawaan Gopinathji was celebrated today at the Bhagawaan Gopinathji Ashram, Udheywala, Bohri, near here, with great religious fervour, gaiety and enthusiasm.
A large number of devotees came to the ashram from early morning from different parts of Jammu and their number went on rising steadily and the congregation swelled to thousands in the day to pay obeisance to their master.
The Ashram at Bohri is a Sidh-Peeth for the devotees, said the ashram in a handout issued to media. The prayers of the devotees are answered; their spiritual and mundane concerns get fulfilled, it added.
The programme started with Paduka Poojan at 8:30 a.m. that is worshipping a symbolic Paduka (a wooden Kharavoon) of Bhagawaanji. Then hundreds of Sadhus were fed and given dakshina (cash offerings). The same has been the practice during Bhagawaanji’s life-time when sadhus on way to holy cave of Shri Amarnath Ji used to visit Bhagawaanji’s Ashram at Kharyar Srinagar on this day.
Devotional songs and music followed, and continued till late in the evening. The evening Aarti concluded at 7:15 p.m. There was an intense spiritual activity throughout the day. Thousands of devotees partook of the prasad. All the function passed off peacefully, thanks to the orderly behaviour of the devotees and the presence of police personnel at the premises.
The authorities including Jammu Municipal Corporation, Police Department, Traffic Police and Power Development Department had made elaborate arrangements for the devotees on the occasion.
The 127th Mahajayanti was also celebrated at ashrams at Kharyar, Srinagar, Kashmir, Greater Kailash-I, Pamposh Enclave, New Delhi, Hastsal Village, Vikaspuri, New Delhi, Nande Balewadi Road, Nande, Pune, Maharashtra, Devangondi Hosahalli, White Field, Bengaluru, Mahindra Ashvita Hafeezpet Road, KPHB, Kukatpally, Hyderabad.
The Mahajayanti was also celebrated at Gole Gujral – Jammu, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jallandhar, Jaipur, Kandivilli, Mumbai, Nerul, Navi Mumbai and also at various other Satsang Mandals spread across the country and abroad.
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