Raipur, July 28, 2025/ On the third Monday of Sawan month, the echo of devotion and faith reached its peak in Baba Bhoramdev Temple, a pilgrimage site of ancient, religious, historical, and archaeological importance in Chhattisgarh, when Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Dev Sai did a grand welcome and greeted thousands of Kanwariyas and Shiva devotees by showering flowers from a helicopter. On this auspicious occasion, Assembly Speaker Dr. Raman Singh, Deputy Chief Ministers Shri Vijay Sharma and Shri Arun Sao were present.
This is the second consecutive year that the Chief Minister himself is showering flowers to welcome the devotees. After the flower shower, Chief Minister Shri Sai reached Baba Bhoramdev Temple and performed chanting of mantras, special worship, and Rudrabhishek and wished for the prosperity, peace, and happiness of the state.
Chief Minister Shri Sai met the Kanwariyas and devotees present in the temple premises, inquired about their well-being, and greeted them with a warm feeling. The Chief Minister said that it is a matter of great fortune and pride for me to join the Shiva devotees on the holy land of Baba Bhoramdev on the third Monday of Sawan month. Thousands of devotees have reached here after walking hundreds of kilometers to see Lord Bholenath—this is a living example of our faith, tradition, and cultural heritage.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister honored Pandariya MLA Smt. Bhavna Bohra, who walked 151 kilometers from Amarkantak to perform Jalabhishek at Bhoramdev Temple, by presenting her with saffron clothes and a coconut.
Chief Minister Shri Sai said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji, an ambitious project of Rs 146 crore has been approved for the development of the Bhoramdev corridor under the Swadesh Darshan Yojana 2.0. This project will not only revamp the temple complex but will also be developed as an integrated religious-tourism corridor from Madwa Mahal, Cherki Mahal, Ramchua to Saroda reservoir.
He informed that the process of allocating 5 acres of land in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, is underway to facilitate the devotees going to Amarkantak from Chhattisgarh, where the construction of a grand devotee building is proposed. The Chief Minister, while extending his best wishes to all the devotees for the Sawan month, said that the flower shower done from the helicopter today has made the importance of this auspicious occasion even more unprecedented.
*Glory of mythological tradition: Baba Bhoramdev complex soaked in devotion*
The tradition of Jalabhishek of Lord Shiva—the god of gods—in the Sawan month has been going on for centuries. This 11th-century Bhoramdev temple located in village Chaura, 18 kilometers away from Kawardha, is an extremely important site from a historical, religious, and archaeological point of view. In the month of Shravan, thousands of devotees from Kabirdham, Mungeli, Bemetara, Khairagarh, Rajnandgaon of Chhattisgarh, including Amarkantak of Madhya Pradesh, come to perform Jalabhishek in the ancient Jaleshwar Shivling of Baba Bhoramdev, Budha Mahadev and Dongariya. Devotees fill water from Maa Narmada and, barefoot and in saffron clothes, undertake a difficult journey of more than 150 kilometers and reach Bhoramdev, Jaleshwar Mahadev, and Panchmukhi Budha Mahadev temple with the slogans of “Bol Bam” and bhajans.