Om Sai Ram,
Dear Sai devotees,
SHITAL by Baba’s grace will
endeavour to follow Baba's Punyatithi as closely to Shirdi as
possible, and would urge your active participation during the Festival.
Baba's Punyatithi will start on Monday 07th
October and finishes on Tuesday 08th October. The temple
will remain open from 8am on Monday 07th Oct right through to
10:30pm on Tuesday 08th Oct.
Below is the schedule for Baba’s
Punyatithi (London & Leicester):
Monday 07th
Oct 2019:
08:00
am Temple Opens
08:15
am Kakad Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
09:00
am Pothi (Shri Sai Satcharitra) Palki
procession
09:05
am Shri Sai Satcharitra Akhand
Parayan begins (Continuous reading of Shri Sai Satcharitra)
(Devotees,
who wish to participate in Akhand Parayan of Shri Sai Satcharitra, please
register your interest by sending an email on [email protected].
Please note that Shri Sai Satcharitra in English will be used for this purpose,
so we need 50 devotees to finish 50 chapters)
09:10
am Mangal Snan (Holy Bath) of Shri Sai Baba
09:45
am Shirdi Majhe Pandharpur Aarti
10:00
am Stavanmanjari Recitation
12:01
pm Madhyan Aarti Of Shri Sai Baba
12:30
pm Maha Prasad Distribution begins
06:00
pm Dhoop Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
06:30
pm Maha Prasad distribution continues
Tuesday 08th
Oct 2019 (BABA'S PUNYATITHI-Main Day) :
12:00
am Shri Sai Satcharitra Akhand Parayan ends
(This
is estimated time as per past experience. Actual time of completion may vary
depending on speed of readers.)
12:05
am Pothi (Shri Sai Satcharitra) Palkhi
procession
12:30
am Rudra Abhishek Pooja
02:00
am Shri Sai Maha Mantra dhoon chanting
06:00
am Mangal Snan (Holy Bath) of Shri Sai Baba
07:00
am Shirdi Majhe Pandharpur Aarti
08:30
am Bhiksha Jholi Programme
09:15
am Aaradhana Vidhi
10:00
am Flower Samadhi i.e. covering Shri Sai
Baba till neck with fresh cut flowers & Petals, (On
16th Oct, 1918 early morning, Baba appeared to Das Ganu at Pandharpur in his
dream and said to him “The Masjid collapsed, all the oilmen and grocers of
Shirdi teased me a lot, so I leave the place. I therefore came to inform you
here, please go there quickly and cover me with ‘Bakkal’ flowers
"Plentiful of Flowers" Ref. Shri Sai Satcharitra Marathi, chapter 42
verse 70 and 71; English, page 222, by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias
"Hemadpant").
12:00
pm Madhyan Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
01:00
pm Shirdi Sai Kirtan
04:00
pm Dahi handi / Gopal Kala.
04:30
pm Seemollanghan
06:00
pm Dhoop Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
06:30
pm Bhajan Sandhya
09:00
pm Shej Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
10:00
pm Temple Closes
MAHA PRASAD (Food) - Will be
continuously served from Monday 07th Oct 12:30 pm right through
to Tuesday 08th Oct 10:00 pm.
Below is the schedule for Baba’s Punyatithi at Reading:
Monday 07th Oct 2019:
08:00 am Temple Open
08:45 am Shirdi Majhe Pandharpur
Aarti
09:00 am Pothi (Shri Sai Satcharitra)
Palki procession
09:05am Shri Sai Satcharitra
Akhand Parayan begins (Continuous reading of Shri Sai Satcharitra)
(Devotees who wish to participate in Akhand Parayan of Shri Sai
Satcharitra, please register your interest by sending an email on [email protected].
Please note that Shri Sai Satcharitra in English will be used for this purpose,
so we need 50 devotees to finish 50 chapters)
10:00 am Stavanmanjari Recitation
12:01 pm Madhyan Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
12:30 pm Maha Prasad Distibution
begins
07:00 pm Dhoop Aarti of Shri Sai Baba
07:30 pm Maha Prasad distribution
continues
12:00 am Shri Sai Satcharitra Akhand
Parayan ends
(This is estimated time as per past
experience. Actual time of completion may vary depending on speed of readers.)
12:05 am Temple Closes after Pothi
(Shri Sai Satcharitra) Palkhi procession
Tuesday 08th Oct 2019 (BABA'S PUNYATITHI-Main Day):
08:00 am Temple Opens
08:45 am Shirdi Majhe Pandharpur
Aarti
09:15 am Stavanmanjari Recitation
10:00 am Flower Samadhi i.e. covering
Shri Sai Baba till neck with fresh cut flowers & Petals, (On 16th Oct, 1918
early morning, Baba appeared to Das Ganu at Pandharpur in his dream and said to
him "The Masjid collapsed, all the oilmen and grocers of Shirdi
teased me a lot, so I leave the place. I therefore came to inform you here,
please go there quickly and cover me with ‘Bakkal’ flowers "Plentiful of
Flowers" Ref. Shri Sai Satcharitra Marathi, chapter 42 verse 70 and 71;
English, page 222, by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias "Hemadpant").
12:00 pm Madhyan Aarti of Shri
Sai Baba
02:00 pm Shirdi Sai Kirtan
07:00 pm Dhoop Aarti of Shri
Sai Baba
07:30 pm Maha Prasad distribution
continues
08:00 pm Flowers will be removed from Baba
09:00 pm Shirdi Manjhe
Pandharpur
09:30 pm Temple Closes.