The Goddess Maa “Shakti” is the “Supreme power”
which saturates the entire of the universe, and from which the Universe has
emanated. There is nothing in the world, which is not “Shakti” in its essence.
Shakti is the Great Mother of the Universe. Maa fights and vanquishes the evil
forces to protect her Bhaktas (Devotees). She is always on the lookout for ways
and means of helping her Devotee. Maa is very “Karunamayi”, “Kripalu” and
“Dayalu” (Kindhearted).
There are several names and forms of Maa Shakti.
Bhaktas (devotees) worship her by many names in many forms, Maa Thawewali is
one of them. There are 52 “SHAKTIPITHAs” in all over India, this place is also
as like as “SHAKTIPITHA”.
The holy place of Maa Thawewali is situated in
Thawe in Gopalganj District in Bihar, INDIA. Maa has arrived here from her
another holy place Kamrup, Assam where she well known as “Maa Kamakhya” on the
prayer of her great devotee “Shree Rahshu Bhagat Ji”. Maa also known as “Singhasini
Devi”. Thawewali Maa is very kind hearted and taking care of her devotee. No
one has come empty handed from Maata temple. Maa has always answered the
prayers of her devotees.
The time of Morning Aarti – between 5:00 to 7:00
am and in Evening 7:00 pm (depends on season). Devotees worship maa with
“Laddo”, “Peda”, “Narial” & “Chunari”.
Two days in week Monday and Friday are very
important for worshiping to make pleased Maa. On these days Devotees gathered
and worship Maa in large number in comparison to other days. The special Mela
is organized during two times in year, in the month of “Chaitrya” (March) and
“Ashvin” (October) on the great occasion of “Navratra”.
"थावे के एगो मिठाई बड़ा प्रसिद्ध हां जवना के पिदुकिया कहल जाला, शुध देशी घिव में बनेला, ई मिठाई असली ओहिजा मिलेला , वास्तव में बड़ा स्वादिष्ट लागेला | एह मिठाई के प्रसिधी बहुत दूर-दूर ले भइल जाता कुछ और जगह भी अब मिलल सुरु हो गईल बा बकीर जवान स्वाद थावेवाला पिदुकिया के बा ऊ कही और नइखे )"History of Thawewali Maa
This holy story pertains to about 14th century
AD. King ‘Manan Singh’ from ‘Chero’ dynasty was ruler of ‘Hathuwa’. Although
Manan Singh was a devotee of Maa Durga but he was having a proud nature. He
claimed to be the greatest devotee of Maa Durga and did not like other saints
and religious persons. People were not happy with the King due to his unkind
nature and behavior.
The fort in which the king resided was located at
present ‘Thawe’. One ‘Rahashu’ lived in the same village who was a true devotee
of ‘Maa Kamakhya’. People used to call him ‘Rahashu Bhagat’ to convey their
respect to him.
Once there was a great famine in the state of
Hathuwa. People started to die due to hunger. There was very bad condition
everywhere, but the king continued to levy tax even in that miserable
condition. Poor people became sadder due to the cruel attitude of the king.
They did pray to ‘Maa Kamakhya’ for relief. To relieve her devotees from their
grief and pain, Maa Kamakhya appeared in midnight while sitting on seven lions
and told to Rahashu Bhagat to cut ‘Katara’ (grass) and to worship her in midnight.
Rahashu Bhagat used to cut ‘Katara’ (grass) whole day and yielded it in
midenight by seven lions of Maa Kamakhya. Thus he got ‘Manasara’ (a type of
holy Rice). Every morning Rahashu Bhagat distributed the Manasara among poor
people. Rahashu Bhagat became very famous because he had relieved the poor
people from their hunger.
When the king came to know about all these
developments, he became very angry and called Rahashu Bhagat and insulted him.
The king ordered Rahashu Bhagat to call Maa Kamakhya to prove his true
devotion.
Rahashu Bhagat requested the king not to do so
and suggested the King to pray the Maa with an honest heart but the king
insisted to call Maa and threatened Rahashu Bhagat to kill in case of
disobedience. At last, helpless Rahashu Bhagat started to pray Maa Kamakhya to
call her. On the call from her true devotee, Maa Kamakhya started her journey
sitting on seven lions from Kamrupa (Assam) where she is known as ‘Kamakhya
Devi’ to Thawe.
Rahashu Bhagat again requested the King to drop
his insistence but the king did not agree and forced Rahashu Bhagat to call
Maa. Meanwhile Maa appeared in Vindhyachal for sometime and was called Maa
‘Vindhyavasni Devi’. In her way to Thawe Maa reached Kalighat in Calcutta and
was called Maa ‘Kalka Devi’. Rahashu Bhagat again requested king to quit his
wish and warned him for mass destruction but the king was not agreed.
In her way to Thawe Maa stayed at Patna for a
while and was called ‘PatanDevi’. Then Maa appeared in ‘Aami’ and ‘Ghodaghat’
was called ‘AmbikaBhawanii’ and ‘Ghod Devi’ respectively.
When Maa reached ‘Thawe’ the weather and
appearance of the place began to change. Due to hundreds of thunders King’s
palace fell and destroyed. Everyone was feared. The devotees of Maa started to
pray her to save them as they had known that Maa had reached Thawe.
After sometime, Maa appeared through broken head
of Rahashu Bhagat and showed her right hand wearing a ‘Kanagan’ (Bracelet). The
four handed Maa appeared sitting on the seven lions and blessed her devotees. On
the pray from her true devotees, Maa made the things normal and disappeared.
Rahashu Bhagat got ‘Moksha’ (heaven). The king,
his palace and all his empire came to end. The remnants of the palace may be
seen even today around the temple of Maa at Thawe.
The devotee of Maa built a temple where Maa
appeared. They also built a ‘Rahashu-Temple’ where Rahashu Bhagat used to pray
Maa. It is said that after ‘Darshan’ (visit) of Maa Thawewali, Darshan of
Rahashu-Temple is mandatory to please Maa.
Maa is also called ‘Singhasini Bhawani’. Maa
Thawewali is very kind and generous to her devotees and fulfills all their
wishes.
“Jai Maa Thawewali”
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