Two weeks before there was grand Procession of Shirdi Sai Baba's Gigantic Idol in Baroda. I was unfortunate to miss this opportunity inspite of the fact that event took place in my area. But Sai brother Bhushanji sent me few details and photos of the event. My heartfelt thanks to him. I am forwarding these details and photos in this post.




























Hetal ji,

Sai Ram.

Happy Baba's day !!!

A Glorious Sahi Sawari (yatraa-procession) of Saguru Shri Sainath Maharaj was arranged through out main cities of Gujarat. Last Sunday, Deva was in Baroda. A very heart touching Baba’s idol was about 20 feet and was quite looking like a Maharaja Dhiraj Yogiraj. Baba’s look was very eye catching & amazing. In evening, they took big round in local areas of Baroda with Baba’s beautiful idol. They have started that mission to spread Saiji’s Lessons, Massages & goal of Human life. To convey Baba’s never ending blessings. People were very happy to see Babaji in his VIRAAT SWAROOP (Gigantic form).

Late evening, there was a programme of Aarti, Pooja & Sankirtan (Bhajan Sandhya). Soothing & heart melting bhajans were sung by the local artist. It was a great evening. Really!! I can’t express everything with help of rich wordings even!!! This sawari / yatra were arranged by Shri Sai Seva Group, Bhavnagar, Gujarat.

May SaiBaba Bless & Guide us All

Warm Regards

Bow to Shri Sai ....
.... Peace be to All

Bhushan Dholakia


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Sai brother Rahul ji has returned from Shirdi and had taken prayers of various devotees. All prayers were kept at Lotus Feet of Sai Babaji on July 7, 2009. Below is his mail.

Jai Sai Ram ji

Hetal ji,

By Baba's blessings our Shirdi yatra was very successful. With all his grace we could spent the entire day with Him.

Baba not only blessed us to attend the noon and evening aarti but also blessed us to place all the devotee's prayers in His lotus feet in the Samadhi mandir.

Regards,
Rahul
Sai Sai Ram ji

I thank Sai brother Rahul ji for co-operating in this seva and may Baba bless him immensely for his kind service and acknowledgment.

I received mail from lady devotee today. She had sent prayer for her son's recovery from a serious malady. Sai Baba heard her prayer and her son has recovered and danger has passed. This is one miracle which came forward. Like this there may be many such incidents, known-unknown, where Sai Baba must have heard prayers in this way too!!! His ways of taking service from devotees and blessing devotees are inscrutable and beyond our logical thinking. Although He was with us in Physical body but His deeds were not human, they only signified Godhood. Please Baba always take care of Your children like this and give them what they deserve.

Other devotees who missed this chance please do not get disappointed as the prayers are still accepted and will be forwarded to Sai Baba in Shirdi whenever any other devotee go from my town or whosoever volunteers this service. This has been informed earlier and you may please click here for further details.


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In the year 1980 when Maharashtra's Chief Minister Shri Sankarrao Chauhan had inaugrated Sai Prasad - 1, the first Prasadalay of Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan. In the same fashion, another Prasadalay with modern solar facilities was started on 8/1/2009. It was inaugrated by President of our country Shrimati Pratibha Patil with remote control.

Here are interesting facts of this modern Prasadalay :

1. Approximately Rs. 40 crores were spent to build this prasadalay.

2. About 5000 devotees could be fed in this spacious prasadalay at a time. About 550 helpers are working from morning 7 till 11 at night.

3. Prasadalay serves prasad meal from morning 10 till 10 at night. Devotees are provided hygienic and fresh food between this time at a nominal charge of Rs. 5.

4. It is well equipped with modern solar technologies. It has a built up area of over 7 acres. Machinery worth Rs. 36,95,128 was imported and more machinery worth Rs. 62,59,056 has been bought from various parts of the county. About Rs. 5,50,000 were spent for customs clearance and installation of the imported machinery.

5. For preparation of Prasad meal, vegetables, onions, potatoes, pulses, wheat, lentil, flour, ghee, oil, etc are procured from Rahata, Kopargoan, Puna, Nasik and other places by tankers. Prasad meal is prepared for about 40,000 to 50,000 devotees and this figure rises upto 1 lakh during festival or peak seasons.

6. Cleaning and chopping vegetables is done by automated machines. Onion chopper machine, onion peeler, dish washers are few automatic machinery used apart from solar cookers. Rice to feed 1000 devotees is prepared only in 25 minutes with the help of solar cookers. This prasadalay has got approval and appreciation certificate from Food and Drugs Department of India.

7. Last year during Dashera, Prasad meal was served free for two days. Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan is planning to provide free meal coupon to devotees standing in queue for darshan with the help of donation of Rs. 3 lakhs or above.



Shirdi is a place of faith of each and every Sai Devotee. The Sai Devotees take the meal as Prasad with great satisfaction. Many generous Sai devotees with trustful involvement donate meals for all the Sai Devotees with free of cost during the time of heavy rush.

At present, in the Sai prasadalaya, everyday 25 to 30 thousand Sai devotees take meal as a Prasad. During the time of vacation and festivals of Lord Saibaba the number of Sai devotees hikes up to 55 thousand. Free Prasad meals are served to poor, blind handicapped & sages. Like this, approx 1000 persons are served everyday with this facility. Expenses for a plate of Prasad meal is around Rs. 15/-. Saibaba Sansthan provides Prasad meals to all Sai devotees to Rs. 6/- only. Apart from this, Children below age 10 are charged Rs 3/- for the same.The prasadalaya’s yearly expenditure is Rs 30 crores.

As suggested by Sai devotees, the Saibaba Sansthan Trust, management Committee has taken the decision to give Prasad meals free of costs to all Sai devotees by accepting donations of Rs 2 lakhs INR or more from generous Sai Devotees for a day. Donor can donate individually or in the group of maximum five members.As per scheme, the Prasad meals coupons are distributed in darshan queue according to dates suggested by the Donor. On the same day, donor(s) name will be displayed at prasadalaya’s notice board.

Following are the details of cost of one day meal.

Feb - March - Aug - Sept - Rs. 2 Lakhs

April - May - June - Dec - Rs. 3 Lakhs

Jan - July - Oct - Nov - Rs. 2.5 Lakhs.

Executive Officer
Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi

Source : http://www.shrisaibabasansthan.org/Main_Hindi/appeal/appeal_prasadalay/ap_prasadalay.htm




























































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