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Bhairavnath asked for meat and wine. Maiya very gently told him that he was sitting
in the hut of a pious Vaishnav Brahmin, and that only vegetarian food
will be served.
Bhairavnath turned a deaf ears to the
words, as he wanted to cross-examine the Girl. Nevertheless, Maiya
Vaishno Devi knew his evil desires and as soon as, Bhairavnath could
rose up with some seditious thinking and tried to catch hold of Maiya
hand, Maiya disappeared.
Bhairavnath was an expert at
the science of meditation and was a tantrik. He closed his eyes for a
moment and saw with the help of his yogic-powers (tantrik powers) that
Maiya had proceeded towards the Trikuta Hills, in a subtle form of
"Air". Bhairavnath started chasing Maiya. [:Darshni Darwaza
- Maiya Vaishnodevi proceeded through this way, after disappearing from
the Bhandhara. One can get a clear view of the hills, from this place.
Hence it is called Darshni Darwaza, i.e., a gate to the hill-site one
and a half kilometer from Katra.] During this
chase,Baba Hanuman is also with Maa Vaishno Devi . Baba Hanuman felt
thirsty, and then Maa Vaishno Devi perched an arrow with HER bow on the
land and a stream of water flew out. This place is called Ban Ganga. [: Ban Ganga - Starting form Katra and passing through
Darshni Darwaza, Ban Ganga is a streamlet gushing out from the hills
over a bridge. The stream is regarded very sacred and many bhakts take
a purificatory bath in it before proceeding further. A beautiful idol
of the goddess is place in the corridors of Ban Ganga temple.] Maiya stopped for some time and looked behind at Bhairavnath who was
chasing her. [Read More : Charan Paduka - The place where Maiya rested
have marks of the impressions of HER feet and were printed on a stone
as SHE stopped here. The foot prints are still visible on the stone,
preserved here in the temple. Hence, the place is called "Charan
Paduka" i.e., the holy foot prints.]
At
a considerable distance from Charan paduka, Maiya reached a small
charming plateau, called Ardhkwari, where a mendicant was practicing
his meditations opposite a small tunnel. SHE gave HER divine sight to
the mendicant and told him not to tell any thing about HER visit to any
one. Thereafter, Maiya went into the tunnel and took rest for full long
nine months, as if the child in the womb of a mother. Maiya
.spent the
nine months in complete devotion. Hence, the tunnel was called "Garabh
Joon".Searching
for Maiya, Bhairavnath reached here. He asked the mendicant " Have you
seen a girl on this plateau?" The old mendicant replied, " SHE is the
supreme power in the whole world, whom you think to be an ordinary girl
and that she is Adikumari", i.e. A virgin since the very beginning of
this earth. He told Bhairavnath either to run away or to beg pardon
from HER.The moment universe came into existence since then SHE has
maintained virginity better you go back. Bhairavnath again put a deaf
ear to the advice and entered into the tunnel |