Pune Rural Police
Two flower-decked buses, carrying the padukas (holy footprints) of Sant Dnyaneshwar along with 40 warkaris , left from Pune for the Pandharpur temple town in neighbouring Solapur district on Monday as part of the annual wari pilgrimage.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maharashtra government this year did not allow the pilgrimage on foot.
Before the outbreak of COVID-19, thousands of warkaris , or devotees of Lord Vitthal, used to join the pilgrimage to go to Pandhapur on the auspicious day of Ashadhi Ekadashi , which falls on Tuesday.
The state government recently decided that the holy footprints of saint-poets Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram will be taken to Pandharpur this year by bus with a limited number of warkaris.
Republic Day parade: Maharashtra tableau depicts its link with Bhakti and Shakti ANI | Updated: Jan 26, 2021 12:32 IST
New Delhi [India], January 26 (ANI): Maharashtra s tableau at the Republic Day parade highlighted the convergence of Bhakti and Shakti in the state over the past few centuries.
It displayed the Saints of Maharashtra which highlighted the influence of Bhakti Movement which had brought a great change in the religious beliefs of people in the state, and freed devotion from the shackles of rituals, promoting equality and brotherhood.
The first part of the tableau showed the statue of Sant Dnyaneshwar, one of the great saints and Marathi poets of India, who travelled all over Maharashtra and preached Samanta and Sambhav .