Due to this event, Sriguru’s fame spread everywhere. Throughout the day, people visited him to pay obeisance and narrate their difficulties. This again started creating a disturbance in Sriguru’s meditation. Therefore, one day he left the place quietly and wandered until he reached Narsinhawadi village at the confluence of the two rivers – Krishna and Panchganga. The Panchganga consists of five rivers viz. Shiva, Bhadra, Bhogavati, Kumbhi, and Saraswati. There was a dense forest surrounding this confluence and hence Sriguru decided to sit under an Audumbar tree for meditation. This place is located on the western bank of river Krishna. In front of this place, on the eastern bank of the river, there is a holy place called Amarapur (Aurwad). A temple of Lord Kashi Vishveshwar is located in this holy place. Sixty-four Yoginis[1] resided in this location. Sriguru stayed on the western bank under the Audumbar tree and every afternoon he would cross the river to Amarapur, take blessings from Lord Amareshwar (Kashi Vishveshwar), collect alms in the village and return to his abode on the western bank of the river.
[1] Yoginis: Its literal meaning is a demoness or a sorceress. The word is used to refer to advanced female yoga practitioners. In a wider and general context, a yogini is believed to be women who possess supernatural powers. During Durga’s battles with the demons (asurs) eight yoginis are described who emanated from the body of Durga, and they assisted her in the battle, Later, the number of Yoginis increased to sixty-four. All these yoginis represented forces of vegetation and fertility, illness and death, Yoga and magic. All yogins are worshipped collectively and together, each one is enshrined in an individual position in a circular temple open to the sky.
One of the most impressive yogini temples is the 9th century Chaunsath yogini (sixty-fou yogini) temple is located at Hirapur, Bhubaneshvar district, Orissa. Other two important yogini temples are the 10th century monuments at Khajuraho, near Chhattarpur and Bheraghat, near Jabalpur, both in Madhya Pradesh.
