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DESHNOK IS A SMALL VILLAGE
SITUATED 32 KM SOUTH FROM BIKANER CITY. IT IS CONNECTED BY NATIONAL
HIGHWAY AND RAIL.
THE HOLY LAND OF DESHNOK WAS FORMED BY TAKING THE
CORNER PLOTS OF TEN NEAR BY VILLAGES ABOUT 387 YEARS AGO (AS PER ENGLISH
CALENDER). AT THE TIME LOCAL PEOPLE USED TO CALL IT AS DUS-NOK. AS THE
TIME CHANGED IT HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO DESHNOK.
THE GREATEST
ATTRACTION OF DESHNOK IS THE TEMPLE OF SHRI KARNIMATA. PEOPLE FROM FAR AND
WIDE COME TO PAY RELIGIOUS TRIBUTE TO SHRI KARNI MATA. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
THERE'S AN INFLUX OF PILGRIMS. OUTSIDE RAJASTHAN, PLACES LIKE GUJRAT,
MADHYA PRADESH, HARYANA ARE AREAS WHERE MATA IS GREATLY RESPECTED AND
LOVED. DURING THE TIME OF NAVRATRI THOUSANDS FLOCK TO MATA'S TEMPLE ON
FOOT. INNUMERABLE PEOPLE COME ON FOOT FROM NEARBY PLACES LIKE BIKANER,
CHURU, HANUMANGARH, SHRIGANGANAGAR AND NAGOR. MATA'S ENIGMA ATTRACTS
PILGRIMS FROM ALL OVER. IT IS BECOMING ONE OF THE HOLIEST AND MOST
FAITHFUL PLACES IN INDIA. SHE IS NOT SOME SUPERIOR FORCE STANDING AND
WATCHING, INSTEAD SHE STAYS EVER READY TO HELP HER DISCIPLES IN WHATEVER
WAY SHE CAN.
THIS MIRACULOUS TEMPLE IS LOOKED AFTER BY A SPECIAL
CASTE CALLED "CHARAN"
THE CHARANS ARE THE REAL HEIRS OF SHRI
KARNI-MATA SINCE LAST 500 YEARS. SRI KARNI-MATA WAS MARRIED TO DEPAJI IN
THE YEAR 1401(AS PER ENGLISH (CALENDER). HER MOTHER'S NAME WAS DEWAL BAI
AND FATHER'S NAME WAS MEHA JI. SHE WAS BORN IN A VERY ORDINARY FAMILY.
SINCE SHE WAS THE REINCARNATION OF DURGA, SO SHRI KARNIMA ADVISED HER
HUSBAND TO MARRY GULAB BAI HER YOUNGER SISTER, TO GIVE HIM A HEIR. DEPA JI
AND GULAB BAI HAD FOUR SONS NAMING NAGA, PUNA, SHITHA AND LAKHAN. THEY
BECAME THE ACTUAL HEIR OF KARNI MA.
 THE FIRST FOUNDATION STONE OF
JODHPUR FORT IN 1515 (AS PER HINDI CALENDER) WAS KEPT BY SRI KARNI MATA
HERSELF.
IN DESHNOK THERE IS ALSO THE GREAT SHRI KARNI MUSEUM
(OPPOSITE THE TEMPLE). IT IS A BIG HALL 52 X 36 FEET. A BEAUTIFULMARBLE
FLOOR TO WALK ON, BIG AND BEAUTIFUL PAINTIGS ADORN THE WALLS FOR THE
PLEASURE OF THE TOURISTS. THERE ARE 22 ANTIQUE PAINTINGS DEPICTING MATA
AND HER LIFE. IT IS OPEN TO VISITORS FROM EARLY MORNING TILL THE
EVENING.
SRI
NEHRIJI:SHRI NEHRIJI IS THE NAME OF THE TREE BELOW
WHICH MATA USED TO SIT AND MEDITATE. THIS EVERGREEN TREE IS 591
YEARS OLD ( AS PER ENGLISH CALENDER)IT IS SITUATED ABOUT 1.5 KM OF
WEST SIDE FROM DESHNOK ,KARNI MATA TEMPLE. PEOPLE CAN GO THERE BY
AUTO-RICKSHAW, CAR , OR BY FOOT.
IT IS SAID THAT, MATA HAD
JUST STUCK A STICK ON THE GROUND AND SPRINKLED SAME CURD ON IT. THAT
SAME STICK HAS BECOME THE EVERGREEN TREE. OVER THE CENTURIES THIS
TREE IS BEING WORSHIPPED IN THE SHAPE OF A "KHEJARI" IN 1942 (as per
english calendar) A STATUE OF MATA WAS INSTITUTED BELOW THIS TREE.
THE STORY OF THIS TREE IS ENGRAVED BESIDE THAT STATUE ITSELF. A
SMALL LITTLE TEMPLE OF MARBLE HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED THERE ABOVE WHICH
THE TREE GLORIOUSLY SPREAD AND BLOOMS IN GLORY.
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