Saturday 1 June 2013

Places to visit in Shirdi


Shirdi is a popular pilgrimage in Indian state of Maharashtra where the temple of Shri Sai Baba is located. This temple is very popular in entire country dedicated to the great Indian saint, yogi, fakir and guru Shri Sai Baba who devoted his entire life for helping poor and needy peoples. This temple is situated in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra in India and every year many thousands of devotees visit this temple to seek the blessings from Lord Sai and to pay their respects towards Sai.
In Shirdi apart from the temple of Sai there are many more places to visit such as Dwarkamayi, chavadi and many more. Entry to the temple is free but every devotee has to stand in a queue for taking darshan and therefore special pass facility is available here because of which one can easily take darshan.

Places to visit in Shirdi

·         Dwarkamai – This is the place where Baba used to live that is a mosque where Sai Baba lived till his death for the entire span of 60 years. Baba turned this mosque into Dwarkamai where Sai Baba stayed.
·         Chawadi – Chawadi is a place where Sai Baba used to sleep every alternate night. Chawadi is one of the important places in Shirdi.
·         Gurusthan – Gurusthan is a place where Baba was found by the villagers. When Baba came to Shirdi, he was spotted under Neem tree and this place is known as Gurusthan.
·         Khandoba Temple – This is the temple where Mahalsapati of Shirdi declared that Sai was not an ordinary man.
·         Samadhi Mandir – This is the main attraction of Shirdi that is Samadhi temple where on the samadhi of Shri Sai Baba the temple is built by his followers.

Shirdi is easy to access as it is well connected by all the transportation mediums such as by road, by train and by air also. The most convenient way to reach Shirdi is by bus as you can get buses from many major cities of India. For accommodation, there are numbers of hotels and lodges available that provides excellent facilities to their customers. Most of the tourists prefer hotels in Shirdi near temple because these hotels are convenient to tourists to attain aarti. So come and visit Shirdi temple.


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