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Engineering Couple Leaves Luxury Life to Serve Free Meals on Narmada Banks
- •An engineering couple left their corporate life behind and settled on the northern banks of Mother Narmada between Jajna and Mattha villages in Sehore district.
- •They live near an 11-mukhi Hanuman temple and dedicate their time to serving free food-prasad to 50-60 Narmada Parikrama devotees daily.
- •The husband, formerly an engineer, and his M.Tech graduate wife were inspired to take up this service after experiencing profound hospitality during their own Parikrama in the corona period.
- •Apart from feeding devotees, the couple also educates local children and provides them with free meals, sustaining their mission through community cooperation.
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After performing the Narmada Parikrama during the corona period, Baba Amar Das and his M.Tech wife were deeply inspired by the devotion of locals who fed them fruits and flowers. Wanting to escape the city's hustle and bustle and dedicate their lives to serving others, they left their jobs and settled near an ashram to feed 50-60 devotees daily.
The total length of the route for the Narmada Parikrama is approximately 2,600 kilometers to 3,500 kilometers. Pilgrims undertake this thousands-of-kilometers-long journey on foot or by vehicle, where free food and lodging arrangements are made available in ashrams and dharamshalas along the way.
Mother Narmada originates from the Narmada Kund in Amarkantak, located in the Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh. Flowing through Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, it is the only river in the country that flows from east to west before merging into the Gulf of Khambhat near Bharuch in Gujarat.
