Gorakhpur,

01 Oct (HS): The Chief Minister personally served food during the Kanya Pujan

ritual and received blessings from the girls by giving them gifts and (dakshina)

donations. Deep reverence and respect for the mother power is the tradition of

Gorakshapeeth. After becoming the Chief Minister, Gorakshapeethadhiswar Yogi

Adityanath has expanded this tradition on practical grounds through several

schemes for women's safety, self-reliance and respect. Strengthening the

feeling of respect for the mother power further, CM Yogi performed Kanya Pujan

as per the tradition of Gorakshapeeth on the Mahanavami date of Sharadiya

Navratri on Wednesday. In the Kanya Pujan program organized at Gorakhnath

Temple, Gorakshapeethadhiswar washed the feet of nine Durga Swaroopa virgin

girls, worshipped them with rituals, covered them with chunari, performed

aarti, fed them with devotion, gave them dakshina and gifts and took their

blessings. Following the tradition, the Chief Minister also performed Batuk

Pujan.

On

Wednesday, Chief Minister and Gorakhpeethadhipati Yogi Adityanath, in the

dining room on the first floor of the temple's Anna Kshetra, washed the feet of

nine young girls one by one with water from a brass plate. Amid chanting from

Durga Saptashati, he applied a tilak of roli, sandalwood paste, curd, and rice

grains to their foreheads. He anointed them with flowers and Durva grass. He

garlanded them, covered them with a scarf, and offered them gifts and dakshina.

During this, he also washed the feet of a six-month-old girl and worshipped

her. The Chief Minister also applied a tilak to a boy dressed as Hanuman,

garlanded him, and draped him with a shawl. After the puja, CM Yogi personally

served fresh food cooked in the temple kitchen to the girls and boys. In

addition to the nine girls, the Chief Minister also worshipped and performed

aarti for the large number of girls and boys who had arrived. All were

reverently fed and given gifts and dakshina.

The

Chief Minister served food to the girls and boys with his own hands: The

eagerness of the little girls and boys to receive the love and affection of

their Maharaj Ji (CM Yogi Adityanath) was worth seeing. With a sense of respect

and affection, the Chief Minister washed the feet of nine girls and Batuk

Bhairav ​​one by one and worshipped them. During this, these girls looked very

happy on receiving Dakshina from CM Yogi. After the worship, while serving food

to the girls and boys with his own hands, the CM also kept communicating

continuously. He also kept in mind that there should not be any shortage of

Prasad in the plate of any boy or girl. He kept instructing the people

associated with the management of the temple regarding this.

Present

during the Kanya Pujan were Yogi Kamalnath, the chief priest of the Gorakhnath

Temple, Jagadguru Swami Santoshacharya Satua Baba, who came from Kashi, etc.

Before the Kanya Pujan, Chief Minister Yogi worshipped Goddess Siddhidatri at

the Shaktipeeth of the temple in the morning worship session.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi