A day after the
consecration ceremony
in Ayodhya,
temple trust treasurer
Swami Govind Dev Giri said he felt a rush of motherly love while offering '
charanamrit
' to
PM Modi
to break his 11-day
fast
, reports Shailvee Sharda. "I felt motherly love at that time, as if I was offering it to my son and breaking his fast," the seer told reporters on Tuesday.
Giri said arrangements had been made to serve honey-lemon water to the PM to break the fast, but he asked for 'charanamrit' (leftover water offered to a deity).
Praising Modi for the "extreme penance" he went through, to prepare himself for the Pran Pratishtha, Giri said: "We told him to follow upvaas for three days, but he observed uposhan (total abstinence from foodgrain) for 11 days. On his own, he went on a journey to holy places to achieve the highest levels of piety."
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