Shirdi Sai Baba Temple:Salem-Tamilnadu. and more

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Dear readers,
Happy Thursday and Happy Baba's day ,
There are so many Shirdi Sai Baba temple across the world and it is not easy to gather information about them by sitting at one place.But when we know Baba is the Controller and Doer it becomes very easy .Since the day this website has started, I have not done any extra work to gather information ,infact Baba's sevak have been doing it and passing the information to this blessed website.

One more such information is sent by another blessed Sai sevak Archana about the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple in Salem -Tamil Nadu.
Pictures are taken through mobile hence they are not very clear but still we can have darshan of Lord Sainath residing in the temple in HIS full Glory .Please read the details as sent by Archana.Jai Sai Ram .


This temple is said to be built by Shri.S.N.Srinivasan, who was a great devotee of Lord Sainath. I am not aware of the details or the inspiration which led him to build this temple, but I guess this was built around the year 1994. This was the first temple for Lord Sainath in Salem.

The temple is situated in a huge space of land, a beautiful shrine, enclosed within the compound walls, bordering the flowering plants of various kinds on all three sides.

On one side of the temple, is a small building used for the preparation of Naivedya.Besdies this there is a small building in it is the Dwarakamayee . Attached is the picture showing the opening to the Dhuni.Also, you get to see the Dhuni doors.


Miracle :

One special miracle which I have to mention here is a couple of days before the Guru Pournima day in 2008, one morning, the priest suddenly felt he saw two forms of Baba (two idols of Baba instead of the one).

Around 8.30 in the morning, when he went to perform the usual rites at the Dhuni, he, being the most fortunate, clearly saw the form of Baba seated inside the Dhuni in the fire. Stunned and surprised, he immediately called the flower lady who was seated outside the kitchen, she ran in too and saw the spectacle.

This was observed by a few devotees who were there at that early hour and one after another all gathered near the Dhuni to see what it was all about. And most fortunate were they all, for they all saw the form of Baba clearly in the fire. He was seated, it looked as if HE was eating.

His form was clad in white, His head cloth, was seen very clearly, white in color. There were some around eight to ten devotees who witnessed this grand spectacle apart from the priest and the lady who sells flowers. Among the devotees, was one traveler, who had clicked this on his mobile and he had promised to send the pictures once he reached his place. But, I am not sure if they received the pictures from that traveler or maybe I am not aware. Who knows, if at all, he happens to read this message on this blog, he might as well be reminded of sending the pictures. That would be great..
This information was shared with us by the priest and the flower lady themselves, on the Guru Pournima Day in 2008.

As said earlier, there is considerable space to walk around the temple building, with flowering plants bordering the cemented platform. On the first Thursday of every month, our Lord is carried around in the Palki, while devotees keep fanning HIM and offer flowers and flowers in bunches .Palki is taken round and round, almost 3 times around the temple building by devotees.Picture of Palki is attached below.

Ladies and girls dance and there is a lot of gaiety on such occasion. One round is for the gents devotees to carry the Palki and the next round for the lady devotees to carry the Palki and do the fanning and the final round, all of them together do this.

I am also inserting the picture of Baba in Palki. Please pardon if the pictures are not very clear.

Devotees are not allowed to go close to Baba, but from where ever we see, we can see our Lord looking at each one of us, His eyes are brilliant and full of life.

As we walk around the Lord in the main hall, we see huge portraits of Baba, one on each side. Attaching them as well here.




On the walls of the temple, on either side is the granite slab inscribed with the eleven sayings of Baba, on one side in English and the other in Tamil.


This temple is located in Salem in Tamil Nadu, at the foothills of Yercaurd.

Landmark: Beyond the District High Court, past the Collector’s Bungalow, you shall have to take a right at the round-turn. As you keep going, a picture of Baba is there too guide you. Or you may ask any of the locals for the correct location. It is easy to get there.

Address:

Shri Shirdi Saibaba Foundation Yercaud Adivaram
Salem
Tamilnadu
India

Telephone Number of Temple : 0427 – 2400909


PS: There is another beautiful temple of our Lord Sainath at Salem. On the 30th, 31st, 1st of October, November respectively 2009 (i.e., the coming week), Maha Kumba abhisheka is to be performed for the Shirdi Sai Baba temple at Junction Road, Salem.

All are welcome.

Those devotees who are interested to take part in the continuous chanting of Shri Sainath’s name (naam japa) or Sat Charita reading or in bhajans, on the auspicious three days, please do let us know. Boarding and lodgings shall be arranged.

How to reach: By train it takes 4 hours from Bangalore. From Chennai, it takes 5 hours. The temple is walkable from the railway station.

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Dear all ,
Hari and Shirdi Sai temple Frankfurt devotees have forwarded me to share few very nice photo's of Saibaba Samadhi celebration in Frankfurt temple.The detail given in mail clearly signifies Baba's message "Sabka Malik Ek".In one of the photo below Baba in blue shawl with HIS blue merciful eye totally captures my attention and I feel like looking at HIM endlessly .Devotee who wish to read about Shirdi Sai temple Frankfurt can read by clicking Here.Thanks Hari for sharing Baba's loving photo with all of us .Jai Sai Ram .

Dear Manisha,
To express our gratitude to BABA for all the blessing and offerings we get, we conducted a function on 15th October as Sai Mahasamadhi day.
People from all over Europe were invited and we received about 70 Indian & German devotees to attend this day. We were also very happy , to get Yagna, Abhishek & Pooja done by two Hindu Priest from the local Vinayaka temple. Also few buddist monks attended the festival.
Hereby we are sending you some photos which represent the impression of our function for BABA.






Thank you for your continuous support.

Warm Regards,
Hari & All the Sai Baba devotees from Frankfurt temple.

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Dear Readers,
I am glad to announce that within 2-3 days the 3 blogs of Shirdi Sai Baba shall be shifted to a secure domain .The process of transition is going on .The reason is very clear as hosting web content on blogger platform has few disadvantages which are not within our reach to fix.

Hence after lot of research on net, with grace of Baba I have decided to shift the blogs to a secure and reliable domain .

Nothing in the new website shall change ,everything will be same as it was in blogger except for the URL (address of the website) which will be changed.

For example right now it is http://templesofshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com

and it shall change to :

http://www.shirdisaibabatemples.org

The look ,the navigation,content and the whole set up of this blog will be same in new domain except for the new web address.

As the blogs are shifting to new domains they are still accessible with the old address .Once the blog shifting process completes ,readers can access the blog with new web address(URL).

Readers are requested to bookmark the address in their browsers or save it in their favourites. I am writing the new address here for this blog ,please note it down or save it in your browser bookmarking/favourites .

Once the blog is completely shifted to domain the old web address http://templesofshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com shall be changed with the web address as given below.

http://www.shirdisaibabatemples.org

Thank you dear readers for your co-operation .And I hope with grace of Shri Sainath we shall continue our togetherness and our journey in search of multiple facets of Shirdi Sai Baba.
Jai Sai Ram .


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Dear readers
Almost a year back I had posted in detail about the oldest Sai temple in Nadia West Bengal with all its details and history which readers can read by clicking on this link .

Today I am uploading few new pictures and also updating the address of the Shibpur temple how to reach the temple. These picture represent the changes and development taking place with grace of Sainath with respect to what it was year back .Jai Sai Ram .
























How to Reach -
From Sealdah Station(Kolkata) to Krishnanagar Railway Station by Krishnanagar Local or Lalgola Passenger Train.
From Krishnanagar Railway Station to Bus Stand by Rickshaw or Town Service.
From Krishnanagar Bus Stand to Shibpur Ghat Sai Mandir Stoppage by Bus (Route Krishnanagar to Shibpur Ghat).

Another Way To Reach Mandir
From Sealdah Station(Kolkata) to Bethuadahari Station by Lalgola Passenger Train.
From Bethuadahari Station Approach Khelaghar Math to Shibpur Sai Mandir by Bus or Trekker

Another Way To Reach Mandir
Krishnanagar Bus Stand to Sonpukur Stoppage by route Bus Krishnanagar to Karimpur/Shikarpur/Patikabari/Nazirpur etc.
From Sonpukur to Sai Mandir by Rikshaw Van.
Krishnanagar to Hatisala by bus route Krishnanagar to Hatisala Ghat. Hatisala Ghat to Sai Mandir by Rikshaw Van.

NADIA SHIBPUR SAI SADGURU SAMITY, WEST BENGAL

City Office : K. C. Lahiri Lane, Chasapara P.O. Krishnagar Dist. Nadia Pin-741101, West Bengal - India

Regd. Office : Village & P.O. Shibpur P.S. Nakashipara District Nadia Pin- 741191, West Bengal -India

Email address : shibpursaibaba@gmail.com, chairman@dreamssaitemple.com

Mobile No : 09434110881 / 09333120111

Temple website: Shibpur Sai Temple Website.


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Dear all,
This post is in continuation of Sai leela experienced by Sai devotee,Sai Bhairava temple priest -Shri Meenakshi Sundaram ji and is the last post .Sai experiences experienced by Meenakshi Sundaram ji has been posted part by part .Devotees who missed any of these leela can go at the end of the post and click on given links to read the missed out post .Jai Sai Ram .
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In 2000 I undertook my annual trip to Shirdi as usual and got the blessings of Sri Sai in June. 2001 I traveled to the place where my son lived and went to the Sri Sai Baba temple there with my wife. The incident that happened there made me realize Sri Sai’s grace once again.

On August 10, 2001 Sri Baba told me in my dream through a photograph that a disastrous incident would happen in USA. Soon after the dream I contacted the American President, George Bush, through e-mail and informed him of the possibility of a disaster in USA and requested him to take preventive measures to avert the disaster.

The President thanked me and told me that as he was busy with many other duties he asked me to contact him some days later.But as my personal attention was needed for the Bhairavar Sai Baba temple I returned to India.

As the 84th Samadhi Day of Sri Sai was nearing I could not prolong my stay in USA.Unfortunately on September 11 a disastrous incident in USA victimized many hundreds of persons.
That year also I went to Shirdi on the last Thursday of the year and returned. During 2001 when I was at Shirdi Sri Baba asked me in Dwarakamayi,”Why I did not feed the devotees after building the temple.”I told him that as the Agni corner (a place for the kitchen) could not be built properly according to the vastu sastra I would carry out my promise in 2002.

I assured him that I would build the kitchen and from the Samadhi day I would start feeding the devotees and the poor.When I raised the matter of building the kitchen to some devotees one of them told me that he would give the necessary amount for building the kitchen.

He gave me a cheque of Rs.25,000/- but when the construction of the kitchen was half-way the work stopped for want of funds.I prayed to Sri Sai baba. Sri Baba assured me that he would look after the problem.

Suddenly two persons unfamiliar to me visited the temple.They saw the half-built kitchen with the necessary materials.In the next week the kitchen was ready.Some gave me rice, pulses and other food articles.

I started my work of feeding the visitors to the temple and the poor.To this day after the afternoon religious rituals ten to thirty persons are fed.2002 was over and from 2003 the work of feeding the devotees continues.

Dear readers I shall not say that here we come to the end of Sai leela's shared by Sai devotee Meenakshi Sundaramji ,butI would like to write awaiting for more Sai leelas to be shared with us as being experienced by him now and in coming days .....
Jai Sai Ram .

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