CURATED BY – CHANDAN KUMAR CHAUBEY | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Muzaffarpur, Garib Sthan temple of Muzaffarpur is called Babadham of North Bihar. Here devotees were seen standing in long queues since Sunday night to offer water to Baba Garibnath. Even today the scene here is amazing.
On the first Monday of Sawan, a large number of devotees and Shiva devotees gathered to perform Jalabhishek. People fill Ganga water from Pahelaja, 87 kilometers away, and stand in long queues since Sunday night to perform Jalabhishek. During this, Har Har Mahadev's chants keep echoing for 5 kilometers.
Sawan will start from Monday and Sawan will also end on Monday. 22nd July is the first Monday of Sawan. In every corner of Bihar including the country, devotees have been thronging Mahadev's temple since morning. There is a long queue of devotees to offer water in every Shiva temple. This time there are five Mondays in a month.

Flood of devotees gathered in Garibnath temple

On the first Monday of Sawan, till 6.30 am, about 25 thousand Shiva devotees performed Jalabhishek of Baba in Baba Garibnath temple. The arrival of Kanwarias started from Sunday night itself. Which will continue till late Monday evening. Local people also started coming from around 12 o'clock at night. The sounds of Bol Bam and Har-Har Mahadev were echoing in the atmosphere. People queued up and offered water to Baba through Argha.

Like every time, this time also adequate arrangements have been made by the police administration and temple management to control the crowd. A large number of male and female volunteers are deployed in the temple and fair premises.

Despite the ban, the bombs came on bikes

Despite the ban on bikes, cycles or any vehicle after RDS College, the bike bombs did not listen. Late on Sunday night, many bike riders came till Makhan Sah Chowk. From there, we stood in a queue and did Jalabhishek.
Each day of the month of Sawan has special importance
Baba Vinay Pathak, the chief priest of Garibnath temple, said that the number of devotees offering water can reach 1 lakh by Monday night. Including Kanvi and locals, it will reach 1 lakh. It is the administration's job to inaugurate the fair. Each day of Sawan is important. Don't worship only on Mondays. People have reduced the month of Sawan to only Mondays. Expand it. Give importance to each day of Sawan. There won't be so much crowd if you offer water every day.