Gitai Mandir, Gopuri — Attraction in Maharashtra

A renowned attraction in Wardha that attracts many visitors throughout the year. The place is famous for the inscription of 18 Gita verses on the vertically placed stones arranged in the shape of a cow, something which is very unique among the sacred and religious places in India. The Gita inscribed on the stones is a Marathi lyrical version of the original Bhagvat Gita translated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave. There is a place called 'Shanti Kuti' in the vicinity that portrays the life of Jamanalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave in the form of historical pictures and textual information. The place is surrounded by big trees and has a serene and calm atmosphere. Downside is security guard doesn't allow more than 10 mins inside the place and ask to leave forcefully, that's probably due to the ongoing Covid pandemic which may be ok/acceptable, but...

Place is undoubtable beautiful, with carved gitayi sloks on each stone. But security guard gave us a tough time saying he can't allow two girls and two boys as per his superiors orders. The only way the young people can visit this place if u come with your family, as per him. We, a group of friend travelled from pune and Mumbai to visit wardha- a place of Gandhi an vinoba and all we have to do for visiting is to fight with them, to visit gitai mandir an vishva shanti stupa. I do understand that they want to maintain its serenity and purity but to see every youngster from the same lenses is absurd. They have enough guards at every place and they still find various excuses and behave rude with people of different gender visiting together. So place was nice but...

In deference to the wish of his mother, Acharya Vinoba Bhave had translated all 700 verses of Bhagavad Gita in Marathi. It was first published in the form of a book in 1932. He titled this book as Gitai, which means Mother Gita.

To create a memorial of his kulguru Vinoba's work Gitai, Shri Kamalnayan Bajaj conceptualized the Gitai Mandir which was agreed by Vinobaji. The shilanyasa (laying the foundation stone) was done by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the construction was undertaken by the Kamalnayan Bajaj Charitable Trust. The construction of Gitai Mandir was completed in 1980. Vinobaji himself inaugurated it on 7th October, 1980 being the 50th anniversary of the commencement of...