The temple is believed to be blessed with superpowers and Maa keeps proving her presence with various miraculous happenings that take place time and again around the Temple. Here are some of the Miraculous stories that are beli eved to have happened.
The Glorious temple of Bhainswa Mata or Bijasan Mata is situated in the Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. It is lo cated 19 kilometers to the north of the Sandawta highway at a distance of three kilometers. You can easily reach the temple as it has good bus services with a bus going there every hour. The miraculous temple of Maa Bijasan has bee n in its place for more than four hundred years now. It is considered one of the biggest and most important religious centers in the whole district where thousands of devotees visit every day to take the blessings from Maa. It is a traditi on throughout the district to take the newborn children and the newly wedded couples to go to the shaktipeeth and st art their new lives with the grace of Bhainswa Maa. The gloriousness of the temple is doubled during the time of Na vratri and Magh Mela as the number of devotees are maximum at these times.
Whenever the devotees travel to the town of Bhainswa to visit the Bijasan Mata temple they find various sacred tem ples on the way and seek blessings before they can reach the Bijasan Mata temple. The visitors first seek the blessing s from The Veer Bajrang Bali Hanuman Mandir in the middle of the pond near the bus stand. Right in front of the H anuman mandir, Is the Neelkanth Mahadev Mandir. After seeking benisons from Mahadev, the devotees visit the Sh eetla Mata ka Chabutra. After visiting the miraculous places of Shri Devnarayan Ji Maharaj and Maa Pari near the p ond, the devotees after getting blessed by the Bhainsasur Maharaj on the Mahua Tree. After invoking the Baba Bhai rav on the stairway the devotees reach the Bijasan Mata Temple. After seeking the blessings from Maa, they also tak e blessings from Kala Ji Maharaj, Bhuna Ji Maharaj, and Maa Kali. After the temple, the devotees then visit the ditc h nearby where the Shri Patal Bhairav sits. Any visit to the Bhaiswa Mata Temple is incomplete without the devotee s visiting the miraculous DOODHTALAI. This visit to Doodhtalai then finally concludes the devotees' pilgrimage to the Sacred Bijasan Mata Mandir.
Many stories and folklores are revolving around the birth of the Bijasan Mata Temple and various miracles that have been happening since then, have been told through generations. One such famous story is the tale of how the temple was founded. The tale believes that various groups of Nomads or Banjaras used to come to the country many years ago. One such Banjara tribe once was halting in the village named Sultaniya, twelve kilometers from the present plac e of the temple. Lakha Banjara was the head of the tribe. He had an unmarried daughter. She used to graze her herd o f cattle with her family. Many people of the tribe used to take their cattle to the nearby brook in the north to make th em drink water. The daughter of the head however never took her cattle there. The people of the tribe complained to their chief about his daughter's absence. The suspicious father decided to check where the daughter went himself. Th e next day he followed the girl silently, he saw that the girl instead of going to the brook went to a Talai near it, pres ently called Doodhtalai, with her cattle. Once there, the girl removed all her clothes and sat in the Talai, moments aft er the Talai got filled with milk and the cattle started drinking the milk. The story then believes that the girl coincidently saw her father watching everything in shock. Ashamed the girl aske d mother earth(Prithvi Maa) to take her into her arms and the very next moment the girl disappeared into the earth. A fter some time had passed the girl goddess took one of her hands out of the earth. It is believed that Devi has come o ut of the mother earth at a little distance from Talai and has been taking away the sorrows of her devotees since then.
People from around the state and more come to the temple asking Maa to show mercy and fulfill the wishes in their Hearts. Various traditions follow after their wishes have been fulfilled. The happy devotees come to the temple and t ake the blessings. The newborns are often brought here for their Mundan(giving away their hair). The newly married couples around the district start their married life with the blessings of Bhainswa mata and pray for a smooth and ha ppy life. Earlier there was a tradition of sacrifices, where the buffalo calves or goats were sacrificed in front of Mataj i after the fulfillment of the wishes of devotees. But after India got its Independence, all the inhuman activities of sac rifice were stopped for good. The priests that worship the goddess are Dhakad Priests. But since the beginning there used to be some Bhil tribe people appointed for the help and safety of the Dhakad Priests. So some of the offerings s till go to Bhil Priests in the temple. Magh Mela is another big tradition in Bhainswamata temple. A big cattle fair starts from Basant Panchami in the hol y month of Magh which concludes on Poornima with a Palki Yatra. Maa travels from the mountain temple to the cit y temple where a grand pooja and Aarti are performed. After which the palki is taken back to the mountain temple. T housands of devotees come to the temple to take part in the Yatra, pooja, and Aarti. Both the Chaitra Navratri and Ashwin Navratri have the followers flogging in to attend the Chunar Yatra and seek th e blessings of Bhainswa Mata. The people of the town perform various kinds of pooja, Hawan, and Path for the next nine days. On the ninth day of Navratri, the Ride begins with the help of Pandaji and directly reaches Shri Ram Man dir. Mata is welcomed joyously in the town with all the pomp and show. The Ride then moves towards the Bijasan Mata Temple. It is a belief that all the wishes in the hearts of attendants of this ride come true.
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