Our pujari is well qualified and very well versed with the Vedas. He is proficient in performing the necessary pujas, rites, and other religious formalities such as marriage ceremonies, upanayanam, grihapravesham, last rites, etc. At the suggestion of many devotees who visit our Center regularly, the Center will also make the pujari available to perform any and all services to devotees outside the Center. Shirdi Sai Center's permanent pujari, Pundit Laxminarayana Sastry Guru Poornima Day Celebrations Guru Poornima Day is a highly blessed and very auspicious day. This day is for celebrating the worship of Guru Shri Sai and every other Guru of ours.
Guru also means the destroyer of darkness - intellectual and spiritual.
Sri Sai has always identified Himself with the other Gurus of his devotees. This Poornima Day is prescribed as the appropriate time to approach the Guru with articles of worship and hearts overflowing with devotion. In Shirdi, the practice of Guru Poornima celebration was begun around 1908. Devotees started worshipping Baba as their Gurudeva. It was a time for all Sai devotees to spend the entire day, or as much as possible, in Sai thought alone.