[Resolved]  Shingnapur — Loot by Shopkeepers and Taxi Drivers at Such a Holy Place Shani Singapur

Address: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

I want to share my 2 times experience while visiting Shingnapur. This village is an interesting village in that no houses have doors. The belief of the villagers is that their Lord Shaneshwara will protect them from all evil. This includes robbery and theft.

Okey, First we visited Shirdi Sai Baba, took taxi from there for Shingnapur. When Taxi Driver Reahced at Shingnapur, he park the taxi in a compund where there were so many shops from where we could take all necessary things for worship (pooja) and orange cloth which we could wear to enter in temple after bath as well. Here this is mandatory that you will have to take pooja material from these shops only, you cannot buy from the shop of your wish. You must have to pay Rs. 251 for each. When we protest for this and asked to buy it from our wish of any shop apart from this compound, 10-15 people came and started insisting us even spoke so many hard words. Then we decided that our of 12 members only 2 members will take thaali (pooja material) they said no each of you must have to take Rs. 251 thaali from here only, even the situation had become so hot, we had no option except taking 12 thaali of Rs. 251 each. It happens with everyone there who comes from far away.After coming out of temple and wearing our clothes when we tried to ask the rate of this pooja material from a place nearby that compund, it was only for Rs. 51, so the question is, where Rs. 200 goes. At such a Holy place where no houses have doors, Taxi drivers and shopkeepers are doing like this with visitors. How does it happens. Every one who is planning to visit there, please beware of these kind of Taxi Drivers and shop keepers.