Around 4 Km before Katra on the Jammu Katra road, a diversion of
3.5 km lead to Deva Mai, traditionally considered to be the second
Darshan on the yatra of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji. That while Shri
Mata Vaishno Devi Ji has her abode in the Trikuta Mountain since
Treta Yug that she stayed at Deva Mai in the form of a small girl
and completed her Tapasya here. The Divine Mother is believed to
have stayed at this place for a period of 110 years in the form of
a small girl child and observed various spiritual disciplines,
while also granting booms to all those who visited her to pay
their obeisance. When her tapasya was complete, She is said to
have converted herself into a idol form in front of her devotees
and since then the same idol is worshipped here.
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