Devghat needs conservation
When night passes away, it changes into the golden morning. Then after music of the conches and bells from the temples wake up the saints and monks inspiring toward their daily life.
Devghat, one of the well-known holy places is situated at 7 kms north from Narayangadha, the hometown of the Chitwan district.
“When we meet this holy site, we wonder on the extreme natural beauty and holy-confluence, then feel inner satisfaction", says one of the visitors from Jhapa.
During Makar Sakranti thousands of devotees from inside and outside of the country make their pilgrimmage to Devghat every year, take bath in the Trishuli and the Kali Gandaki river junction and pay homage to their lords. The well-known visible religious spots at Devghat Tapobun are Saleswor Aashram, Mahesh Sanyash Aasram, Sita cave, Chakravarti temple and temples of lord Radha Krishna, Laxmi Narayan, Ram, Shiva and Buddha in the Chitwan district have been highly regarded.
Devghat is a beautiful junction of the three different zones Lumbini, Narayani and Gandaki, the three different districts Nawalparashi, Chitwan and Tanhun and three different rivers Narayani, Trishuli and Kali-Gandaki. When Kali-Gandaki and Trishuli meet then it is called Narayani.
When people spend more years of life their mind needs mental peace and non-reparative spiritual satisfaction. They start to draw golden lines of dream to pass balanced years in the name of Gods and come to ‘Devghatdham’.
All the temples at Devghat have continuously been pronouncing the esoteric words through the bells and couches broadcasting the message of holy-peace and security all over the world. Devghat always sounds the bell of spiritual awaking. All the hermits and devotees are worshipping the ‘God’ to open the gate of salvation.
Meanwhile, Kali Gandaki Riverbank is the only site in the world, where the lord ‘Shaligrama’ could be found. The Vedic religious and traditional scenery at Devghat entirely motivates the visitors and ritual personages. We wordly can’t elaborate the scene of those hermits who seemed being involved to their penances, so this beautiful Devghat has been regarded as the site of great religious existence.
During Makar Sankranti, lords, angels and other heavenly feathers come down Devghat and take bath in the river junction of Kali-Gandaki and Trishuli rivers, believe the local religious personalities.
But as years are passing away, Devghatdham is undergoing religious destruction. Decades ago, Devghat was purely known as the centre of meditation and adoration. Pilgrims had often been concentrated to their salvation here on the divine flame.
The great religious, cultural, natural and historical values of Devghat undisputedly are being destroyed. Due to the over construction of modern buildings pure valuable religious huts, small cottages and hermitages of Devghat are being replaced. “The Vedic religious hermitages must be preserved. In the name of construction and material development religious existence of Holy Devghat should not be disturbed.
For this local administration should take essential action against the surge of building constructions and encroachment,” opine local hermits.