Kind request : Friends, Please understand shirdi saibaba has no specific rules in any pooja or way we show our devotion to him. He is a saint of mercy.People write to me asking for sai vrat katha book.I ask them to search net for online versions.I do not like to do anything commercial. so i ask them to try to get the books in near by shirdi saibaba temple. If you can't get book also try to do this pooja as given below.Instead of book, you can read sai satcharita and also Sainath Stavan Manjarican be copied in your wordpad, take a print out , xerox it ,stabler it and give it to sai devotees.

Friends, This Sai vrat Pooja is done by many shirdi saibaba devotees .Recently i realized many books about sai vrat pooja has come and these books are got again as the pooja says that after completion of the 9th week, one has to distribute the pooja book.Its getting too commercial . I appreciate anything that creates sai faith . So atleast those who cant get the book, try to take print out of sainath stavan manjari written by Das ganu maharaj. Its very powerful if you read this sacred poem on praise of saibaba .

If you can get the sai nav guruwar vrat book , fine then do as you wish but i have a better request. Its only personal request. Please see if you can print out Sainath Stavan Manjari for distribution to friends. Devotees abroad can also send a link to this page or sainath stavan manjari as many mail me asking for book. Thats what my friends have been doing and its really helpful. Now lets go to the Pooja ....

Kokilaben and her husband Maheshbhai used to live in a big city and they had lots of love for each other. But Maheshbhai’s nature was very annoying and he had no sense of talking. Neighbors were also very much frustrated by his this kind of nature. Kokilaben had lots of faith in GOD and she was very religious.

She was tolerating all her problems silently having lots of faith in GOD that GOD will make everything all right one day. But because of Maheshbhai’s nature, their business went down gradually and there was not enough income. He started staying at home all day and his nature become worst. 

It was an afternoon. One old saint came to Kokilaben’s door. There was enormous light on his face. And he asked for rice and dal (lentils). Kokilaben gave him rice and dal and she folded her both hands and said “namste” (greetings). Saint replied “SAI will always keep you happy.” Kokilaben said “There is no happiness in my life” and she told all her problems to the saint. 

After listening to all her problems, Saint told her about “SAI NAV (NINE) GURUWAR (THURSDAY) VRAT”.  Saint told as follows about the Vrat.

• This Vrath can be started from any Thursday by uttering SAI BABA’s name. 
• This Vrath has to be continued for 9 Thursdays. 
• Any male, female or child can do this Vrat. 
• On these Nine Thursday, individual who is doing vrat can eat fruit/milk/sweets etc. all day long or can have one meal a day. ONE MUST NOT DO THIS VRAT WITHOUT EATING ANYTHING.
• If possible, go to SAI BABA’s temple to have SAIBABA’s darshan on these Nine Thursday. 
• At home, do pooja / prayer of SAI BABA as follows. 
• In the morning or in the evening, do the pooja as mentioned below. 
• Put Yellow Cloth in front of you and place SAI BABA’s Photo or Statue on this cloth. 
• Light lamp (diya) in front of BABA’s picture. 
• Wash or wipe BABA’s picture with clean water and cloth. 
• Put “tikka (Bindi on the forehead)” with “kumkum” (red powder) on BABA’s face. 
• Offer Yellow Flower to BABA. 
• Offer Fruit or Sweets to BABA as Naivadhya (Prasad) 
• Read this SAI story and Read / Sing SAIBABA’s Aarti after finishing Pooja and reading story. 
• Tell BABA why you are doing this Vrat and ask him to fulfill your wish. 
• Give Prasad to all your friends and family members and you also eat it some. 
• If, because of any reason, you cannot do vrat on any Thursday, skip that Thursday and continue from the next Thursday. 
• If female is doing this Vrat, skip the Thursday during Menstrual Cycle period. 
• On the 9th Thursday, Celebrate SAI VRAT. In this celebration process, feed 5 poor people and distribute this SAI VRAT book among people. One can give 5, 11 or 21 etc.