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Ugadi 7th April
Ramnavami 13th April
Guru Purnima 18th July
Shirdi Vijayadashmi 9th October
Festivals are great time to visit Shirdi of Saibaba. There are three major
festivals that are held in Shirdi attracting thousands of devotees from
across the world. The three major festivals celebrated at Shirdi are
Ramnavami, Guru Purnima and Shirdi Vijayadashmi. All these festivals are
celebrated all across India with equal zest and excitement but at Shirdi
they have some other significance. All these festivals have their special
distinction to them in the way they are celebrated in the other parts of
India. The distinction is the association of Saibaba himself which add to
these festivals all new and exciting verve to them.
Ramnavami
Ramanavi is one of the most important festivals celebrated with great
excitement and fanfare. In the year 1897 Goplarao Gund proposed holding in
Urus in name of Saibaba in gratitude of a child which he was granted after
so many childless years. Saibaba conceded to celebrate his urus on the
condition that it be celebrated on Ramnavami. This was indeed an ingenious
touch of Saibaba bringing together the Hindus and Muslims together. People
may know Urus is a Muslim festival that is celebrated to honor a saint.
You can come to participate in Ramanavami at Shirdi, celebrated every year
in March or April. This shows the kind of communal harmony that weaves
people of different faiths at Shirdi. Ramnavami has equal and enthusiastic
participation of both Hindus and Muslims. In Shirdi, two locally historic
rituals are carried out during this festival. The sack of wheat that is
kept in Dwarkamai is changed and the old one taken to prasadalaya to be
used there, and secondly, the dwarkamai flags are replaced.
Gurupurnima
Gurupurnima or Full Moon is also a wonderful time to visit Shirdi. It is
the time to honor the Guru and seek his special blessing. Quite a
significant festival in Shirdi Guru Purnima was the only festival which
Saibaba has asked his devotees to celebrate. This is the time devotees all
across the world converge in Shirdi to seek Saibaba's blessings. There is
also Vyasa Puja that is held during Guru Purnima, in honor of Ved Vyasa
who wrote the epic Mahabharata.
Shirdi Vijayadashmi
Vijayadashmi is a big festival in Shirdi, venerated as a holy day when
Shri Saibaba left his mortal body for heavenly abode. The festival is also
celebrated as Shri Sai Punyathithi in Shirdi attracting great number of
devotees from all over the world. Various religious activities are
arranged Great number of people flock to Shirdi during this Festival.
During this festival 'Brahman Bhojan' is arranged with Dakashina (Donation
to Guru).
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On the
occasion of Telugu New Year April 7th 2008 "Ugadi" We are arranging
Shri Sai Baba Pooja/Abishakam at Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Shirdi.
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Pooja101
Price : Rs.700-00
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The Cost
indicated is not the actual cost that the temple(s) charges for an Pooja / Abishakam. It includes our Service Charges,
Traveling and postage. We will personally go and perform the pooja. we
don't have any contacts with the temple. on behalf of you we will go
and buy Abishakam tickets on specified date. |
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Note:
1. Pooja will be performed by our person and the Prasadam will be sent
to our office from where it will be dispatched to you. Prasadams will
reach you within fifteen days from the Pooja date.
2. Great Efforts will be taken to perform the Pooja/Abishakam in the
Name and Nakshatram of your choice. But there are occasions when
poojas cannot be performed in individual names because of the crowd.
In such cases poojas will be performed in God's Name |
Life of Shirdi
Saibaba
Shri Saibaba of Shirdi lived between
1838 and 1918, whose real name, birthplace and date of birth are not
known. An Indian spiritual guru and a fakir that transcended the barriers
of religions, Saibaba of Shirdi was regarded with great reverence by both
Hindu and Muslim followers. He lived in a mosque and after death his body
was cremated in a temple.
His philosophy ingrained 'Shraddha' meaning faith and 'Saburi' meaning
compassion. According to him Shraddha and Saburi were the supreme
attributes to reach the state of godliness.
It is believed that at a tender age of 16 yrs Shri Saibaba arrived at the
village of Shirdi in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra and remained their
till his death. He found shelter in Khandoba temple, where a villager
Mahalsapathi in the temple addressed him as Sai or Saint.
Saibaba of Shirdi lived an extremely simple and austere life, sleeping on
the floor of temple and later taking a ruined mosque as his shelter. With
his arrival to Shirdi, in no time he began exhibiting a hypnotic
attraction among people as they began flocking to him. He is attributed
many miracles doing things that were beyond a mortal's power. He never
discouraged these attributes and soon his fame spread like wild fire. Many
pilgrims came seeking his blessings. Such was his hypnotism that even the
mundane of his activities attracted large crowds.
Popular among both Hindus and Muslims, Shri Saibaba became a great
building force between the two disparate communities. He regularly recited
Hindu and Muslim prayers. His Hindu followers considered him to be an
avatar or reincarnation of Shiva and Dattatreya. Sai Baba did not leave
any written works. All his teachings were oral and catchy. His sayings
were short, crisp and in layman language with which the common mass could
easily associate.
Saibaba encouraged charity and said, "Unless there is some relationship or
connection, nobody goes anywhere. If any men or creatures come to you, do
not discourteously drive them away, but receive them well and treat them
with due respect."
Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi was unique in the sense that he lived his message
through the essence of his being. He lived among the common people
adorning a torn kafni (long robe), sleeping over a mat while using brick
as his headrest and got his food by begging. Such was his smile that
radiated a mystical charisma and deep seated inward look that hypnotized
the people who visited him.
His most concise message for one and all alike was "Why fear when I am
here".
Saibaba said that he was a slave in the service of those who loved him. He
was ever living to help those who turn to him and that he has to take care
of his children day and night.
Saibaba's mission was to restore belief in god and according to him, "I
give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I
want to give them (knowledge of the Ultimate)." He then taught values of
total surrender to the Almighty Master (ALLAH MALIK EK- The only ONE) and
experiences his grace.
Today, Shri Saibaba has millions of devotees in India and abroad. Shirdi,
the obscure village in Maharashtra has become a pilgrimage destination
much as Bethlehem, Jerusalem or Varanasi. With over 25,000 pilgrims
thronging in here each day the number of pilgrims climb to over a hundred
thousand on holidays and festival days. There are over 2,000 major Sai
temples in different parts of India and 150 abroad in places as far-flung
as Canada and Kenya, Singapore and England. |
