Dixit also says, "Before, Baba never allowed anybody to perform Aarti to him. Mamaledar of Pandharpur." Shri Kakasaheb alias H.S. The Aarti tradition was first started by Noolkar, a Retd. Only Noon Aarti was performed in the Dwarakamai. Morning (Kakad) and Night (Shej) Aartis were conducted in the Chavadi. Afterwards the tradition of Aarti was started. from 1911 to 1918, informs, "In the beginning only Mhalsapati and Mahadev, son of Nanasaheb Chandorkar, used to worship Baba. Swami Sai Sharan Anand, who had direct association with Baba for about eight years, i.e. It is a familiar notion among many Sai devotees that the Aarti tradition at Shirdi was started by Shri K.J. Strictly speaking, that was the seed-bed upon which the glorious tree of Sai Worship has begun to grow! As the devotee's emotional attachment to his Guru grows, the inflated emotional fervour seeks some form of expression. Obviously Baba did not object to the pious usage. As most of the people who were drawn to Sri Sai Baba, from the outset, were Hindus, we can imagine the customary fashion in which he could have been honoured in general. It is the pious custom of the Hindus to bow down or prostrate in reverence before a saint by touching his feet, as a mark of humility and self-abnegation. As Sai Baba's fame soon started spreading, people – mostly Hindus -were drawn to him in galore from far and wide. To pious Hindus, an ascetic, whether he is a Hindu or a Muslim, is a holy man worthy of reverence. Even from the day of his advent at Shirdi, people - though a handful in the beginning - looked upon him as a holy man, a fakir (a Muslim ascetic). The introduction of Aarti as a regular congregational worship at Shirdi is to be seen as marking a new phase in the evolution of the worship of Sri Sai Baba.
Let us first glean all the available data from various sources and construct them into a coherent hypothetical sequence, before proceeding to discuss the posing discrepancies therein. Even the small stray details scattered here and there are fuzzy and incongruous. In the whole gamut of the literature on Sri Sai Baba, the details regarding how and whence the custom of performing regular Aartis to Baba commenced, are not clearly recorded. The first glimmerings of the dawn of the Aarti tradition in Shirdi are a bit foggy. Congregational worship with prolonged singing of devotional songs in unison is seldom found in South India. In Mangala Aarti normally camphor is kindled instead of an oil lamp. In the South, usually it is done as a concluding part of the ritualistic worship, (both public and personal) which is called Mangala Aarti or Neerajana. This custom of Aarti, as a from of congregational worship, is more in vogue in northern India, especially in Maharashtra. Though, the tradition of offering Aarti is almost ubiquitous in the Hindu liturgy, the details of the modus operandi differ from region to region and are distinguished by many sectarian embellishments. After the devotional singing, the flame of the Aarti-lamp is offered to the devotees, who pass their hands by turns over the sacred-flame and quickly draw them to their faces and heads as a gesture of drawing unto themselves the auspicious energy emanating from the receptacle of grace', i.e. All such details as the number of wicks, the kind of fuel, etc., carry their own esoteric symbolism. Sometimes, instead of an oil-lamp, ignited camphor placed on a try is waved. A lamp with wicks burning clarified butter (ghee) is the most preferred. Such a performance of aarti with a fivefold oil-lamp is called Panchaarti.Īt times Aarti is performed with a single, three or elevenfold (and so on) lamps. While the devotees sing psalms, either an officiant or a devotee revolves clockwise, (usually) a fivefold oil lamp - consisting of five oil-traylets - round the object of adoration.
The object of worship is devoutly decorated with posy garlands and aromatic incense and musk are kept smoldering. Normally, the singing is accompanied by musical instruments such as bells, gongs and cymbals. Significance and Complete History of Sai Baba’s Aarti in ShirdiĪarti is a mode of congregational worship, in which the devotees stand facing the image of a deity or a deified Saint or, the personage ('living idol') of an exalted Saint singing devotional songs in unison.
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