Less known facts about Shirdi and Sai Baba

Less known facts about Shirdi and Sai Baba

Shirdi is one of the most important pilgrimage towns in The Maharashtra State of India. Sai Baba, a 19th-century saint who united people together from all faiths, is the presiding deity of the temple around which the town runs. Today, this small town with a population of over 36,000 people provides work to thousands of peoples and makes it easy for the devotees who wait in a long queue for hours just to get the blessings of Sai Baba. No one can deny or even ignore the fact that Shirdi contributes to the economy and to the livelihood of peoples living in Shirdi.

Here are some less known and even interesting facts about Sai Baba’s Shirdi.

 Shirdi’s literacy rate is more than the national average.

This Smalltown Shirdi has a higher literacy rate than the national average. According to the 2011 census, the average literacy rate was 70% with male literacy at 76% and female literacy at 62%. The national average literacy rate is 59.5%.

Direct train from Puri in Odisha to Shirdi.

Shirdi is easily reachable from many major cities in the state. It has good connectivity by road with Smart cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, and Aurangabad around the country. And even has its own airport too. You can even catch your flights from Mumbai and Pune. But the less known fact is that Shirdi has one of the most active Railway stations named Sainagar on Central Railway line. The Sainagar Shirdi – Puri Express leaves every Sunday from Sainagar Shirdi and takes about 29 hours to complete the journey of 1,619 km to Puri. Sainagar Shirdi – Kolkata Howrah Junction Superfast Express takes about 26 hours to complete the journey from Sainagar Shirdi to Kolkata’s Howrah Junction, a distance of 1,790 km.

The Malaysian government wants to invest in Shirdi Airport

The Government of Maharashtra received a bid from the Malaysian Government showing interest in taking over the operations of Shirdi’s airport. Which makes it more important and worth in the way of investments.

Jackie Shroff gave up smoking and drinking while shooting for a film on Sai Baba in Shirdi

The ’80s heartthrob, Jackie Shroff, also played the saint in a 2010 film called Malik Ek. In interviews with media houses, Shroff committed that he’d given up smoking and drinking while he shooting the film. The movie vanished without a trace and if Jackie Shroff had any hopes of renewing his flagging career, they were dashed.

The actor played Sai Baba so well, people began worshiping him too

In a movie named Shirdi Ke Sai Baba, this actor Sudhir Dalvi’s played role in Sai Baba in 1977 was so prompt that many peoples started worshiping him as a god. The movie that broke all records made Dalvi a household name. Many Sai Baba devotees who would spot him on the streets would fall at his feet and take his blessings. Isn’t it an interesting fact?

A Gentleman donates Rs 110 crore to Shirdi’s Sai baba trust.

Mr. KV Ramani, the co-founder of NASSCOM. In 2012 donated Rs 110 crore to the trust. He donated his 80% of his earning to Shirdi Sai Trust. The trust utilize this money in building ashram that can accommodate 14,000 devotees! Well, that’s a quite big number.

The Sai baba temple was once private property!

Today the beautiful temple that stands at the center of Shirdi’s economy was built in 1922, four years after Sai Baba’s death, the temple was commissioned and privately owned by Shrimant Gopalrao, from Nagpur, who was a devotee of Sai Baba. Today it is owned and run by the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust.

Shirdi temple welcomes 60,000 visitors every day

Shirdi handles almost 60,000 visitors on ordinary days. And this no cross over 100,000 during weekends. But on Special days such as Gurupoornima, Dussehra and Ramnavami it counts over 500,000.

So these were some interesting facts about Shirdi and Sai baba, hope you all liked it.

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How to Plan Shirdi Trip from Chennai

Planning any trip, or even thinking of any vacations excites me a lot the same as you all. Thus keeping the excitement aside there are many things that are to be considered while planning any trip or tour.

During my summer trip to Rajasthan, we faced many problems which were due to unplanned Trip an insufficient knowledge about the places we visited which resulted in a miserable tour experience. But you can overcome these problems by simply selecting any best tour package of your dream destination from the best tour operator.

The reasons behind going for tour packages are, the tour operator has much more knowledge and experience in the field and can guide you with proper information and suggest some best offers and deals also. Planning a Shirdi trip needs to get more serious because holy places like Shirdi have much rush and many problems to face such as hotels, food, waiting for Darshan, parking and so on.

Thus answer for your How to plan Shirdi Trip from Chennai will be in one word, 'Vasantkamal Tours'. Vasantkamal Tours has been marked as one of the best tour operators in Chennai. They are well known for their Shirdi Tour Packages from Chennai.

The Shirdi Tour Packages from Chennai are equipped with all the amenities and comfort within your budget. All Packages are offered in two variants, the "Shirdi Tour package by Flight and by Train" for a comfortable journey. The tour package includes luxurious 4-Star hotel stay to relax your body and mind after and fun full day and travel, to be more comfortable during local travel an AC Car/Bus are allotted separately, and much loved local food with the best taste will add a flavor to your trip memory. Vasantkamal Tours offer special VIP Darshan for their fellow travelers to get the blessings of Shri Sai Baba. The packages also include visit to nearby places and tourist spots. They have a specially appointed highly experienced tour guide to take care of our trip. In short, The Shirdi Tour Package is worth for money. Still, my personal opinion will be to visit the office and get detail information and clear all your doubts with exciting offers.

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Planning for Summer Holiday: Shri Sai Baba Shirdi Tour Package

Vasantkamal Tours offers some finest Shirdi tour Packages from Chennai, but before touring let us share some information of Shri Sai Baba for all Sai devotees.

Our much loved and revered God, Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi or Shirdi ke Sai Baba as we all know him, was a fakir when he first arrived in Shirdi. It was Mahalsapati who gave him the name Sai which means religious Mendicant or God. He came to Shirdi as a young lad and no one knows about his background or where he came from. He arrived in Shirdi like God descending on that little village to help them and stayed there till the end. All his life he remained a fakir and believed in eating what he got in bhiksha and wore a white kafni and the two mantras he repeatedly said were “AllahMalik” and “Sabka Malik Ek”. He prophage the tenets of Shraddha which is faith and Saburi which is patience to all the people and helped solve all their problems. He lived outside the village in an old mosque which was in a dilapidated condition and called it Dwarkamai. Even today when people visit Shirdi they never forget to visit Dwarkamai which is situated on the right of the entrance of the Samadhi Mandir. Baba turned the mosque into Dwarkamai and proved that God is one. The first floor of Dwarkamai has portraits of large stones that Baba and Baba used to sit on. There are two rooms at this level. One contains the chariot and the second contains Palkhi. Just in front of the room where the chariot was kept, there was a small temple. The saffron flag flies over it. On the second floor of Dwarkamai there is a square stool made of stone, which Baba uses to bathe.

The main attraction of this place is the oil painting of Shri Sai Baba sitting in a carved wooden shrine. There are also grindstones and wooden boats called Kolamba, which used to bring Bhiksha from the village. Dwarkamai is where Sai sits every day, and people from all over the world come to see him with his problems. Initially, he used his herbs growing nearby to treat their disease, but then he began to illuminate dhuni and treat people with his holi udhi, even today as Prasad for everyone visiting Samadhi Temple. Udhhi is now even considered medicinal and has magical healing properties. He also helps people deal with other personal problems and protect the villagers, just like their own family. Dwarkamai is like a temple and a refuge for the Shirdi people. They need help when they come there.

Today Shirdi is easily accessible by all means such as by road from Pune and Mumbai if you take a flight and there are several direct trains to Shirdi as well. Many peoples around India go through Shirdi tours every year to get the blessing of Sai Baba. For your best experience chose a tour package to Shirdi and get a complete tour of the Sai Baba temple with a well-organized Darshan of the Samadhi Mandir and some interesting places in and around Shirdi itself. Vasanth kamal Tours offers somespecial Shirdi tours Packages while keeping in mind all the needs of Sai devotees for their complete satisfaction on Shirdi trip. The Packages Such as ‘Shirdi Tour Package from Chennai by Flight’,‘Shirdi tour Package from Chennai by Train’, and ‘Direct Flight package to Shirdi from Chennai’ are famous among the Sai devotees. These Shirdi tour Packages are loved due to the fact that they are truly value for money packages. Which includes Luxury class stay and travel with Hygienic food. The whole tour will be guided by highly experience tour guides throughout the tour.

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