Shirdi Sai Baba

Sai Baba lived in Shirdi for some sixty years until his samadhi in 1918, and devotees of every faith come to pray at the Samadhi Mandir where his remains rest. The village keeps the places of his life close together: Dwarkamai, the mosque where he lived and kept a sacred fire burning, the Chavadi where he slept on alternate nights, Gurusthan under the neem tree, and the Lendi Baug garden.

The day at Shirdi follows four aartis, Kakad at dawn, Madhyan at noon, Dhoop at sunset and Shej at night, and on Thursdays the palki procession carries Baba's portrait from the Samadhi Mandir. We book darshan and aarti passes on the Sai Sansthan's official site once your dates are fixed, choose hotels within walking distance of the temple, and pair Shirdi with Shani Shingnapur, the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga near Nashik and Siddhivinayak in Mumbai.