He had also heard a divine voice ordering him to do duty for Sri Balaji Hanuman.
He was unable to see any one initially but after years of penance, Lord Sri Balaji finally appeared and showed him the place in the forest where the temple and the three divine forms were found.
The ancestors of Shri Mahantji started pooja regularly and subsequently the temple was built.
You can see devotees doing strange things like pouring a bucket of hot water on head and still not burning themselves. Heavy stones pelted on people. People are chained like animals for being cured.
There are others who inhale the fumes out of the sweet patasas kept on smoldering cowpats.
Many devotees believe in this treatment and have a blind faith in the practices.