PRAYAGRAJ: As formidable as their ash-smeared, half unclad bodies and matted hair might look, seers and sadhus camping at Tapasavi Nagar are attracting crowds to the Magh Mela ground.
Be it Narmada Ganesh Baba or Baba Bhagwat Das, devotees from all across the country are flocking to the Magh Mela ground in UP's Prayagraj to seek their blessings.
Visitors are also keen to know more about sadhus and the history of these seers who have been associated with Akhil Bharatiya Shri Panch Terah Bhai Tyagi akhara.
These saints attend all Magh Melas, Ardh Kumbh and Kumbh Melas whenever and whereever they are organised in Prayagraj, Ujjain, Haridwar and Nasik.
Ahead of the Haridwar kumbh, saints and seers associated with Panch Shri Terah Bhai TyagiAkhara, Ayodhya and performing special Hatha yoga have turned to be major crowd puller at the ongoing Magh Mela.
Devotees too claimed that they are visiting the camps of Tapasvi nagar, Khak chowk in sector 3 of mela to interact with seers and saints and seeking blessings.
Narmada Ganesh Baba, who keeps special sandalwood paste & design on his body, has turned to be a major crowd puller at Tapasvi nagar.
Baba, who keeps on moving across the country and attends all religious events and activities including Kumbh andArdh Kumbh, interacts with devotees and pilgrims and teaches spiritualism and benefits of meditation.
Besides, BabaBhagwat Das, who too hails from Ayodhya and has been visiting Kumbh, Ardh Kumbhand Magh Melas since the last 18 years, has become famous for his unique quality of serving beverages.
He offers tea and coffee to all the visitors who visits him to seek his blessings. Baba is keeping a thermos flask and clean utensils ready for visitors.
“I have a habit of offering tea and coffee to the visitors and thus I have become known as ‘Chai Aur Coffee Wale Baba’ among devotees” he added.
Moreover, Laddoo wale baba is also attracting crowd at Tapasvi Nagar who offers blessings along with laddos who so ever visits him to seek blessings.
With seers busy in their meditation, religious activity and Hatha Yoga, large number of devotees are visiting these seers.
There is also asection of seers who infrequently talk to visitors and are largely unmoved bythe gathering of onlookers around them.