Young indians and sprituality

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Re: Young indians and sprituality

@pallavpotter

Ok. Next time you go to india, go to Haji Ali shrine (mumbai) , Saieen baba or Hazrat Nizamuddin Aoulia shrine in Ajmair Sharif ( which ever i near to your city) and eat lunger there (free food). I am sure you will get to eat Channa pullao and Zarda there :k: As people from all faith go there both are vegitarian dishes and fairy common.

you have been there?? you been ever to India??

Sorry there was a mistake. It is Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti’s shrine in ajmair sharif. And No I have never been to india I hope one day inshallah :k:

*Another question related to food. ***What food item are typically in your parsaad ? Do you get free food at mandirs ? **

at our home, the daily Prasad usually contains fruits and some sweets. if in a hurry, then just sugar.
in Mandirs, well, yes, we have free food in there. but not all. you cant expect the lil ones to distribute food for free. the bigger ones give plenty of them. theres a Temple in South India,forgot the name, where they serve lakhs and lakhs of ppl daily.
but of course, you always get the “fruits-and-bits-of-sweets” prasad in every where.
and that too depends on region to region.

Just like parsaad in muslim regions people distribute free food at shrines and it is called Tabarak, means same as parsaad.

heres some interesting details about the two degs at the shrine in ajmair sharif. I read about them in newspaper here the detail.

After crossing the Buland Darwaza two huge cauldrons, one on the right and the other on the left are seen.

Bari Deg - It is located on the right side of Buland Darwaza inside Sahan-e-Chiragh Emperor Akbar pledged to visit Ajmer Sharif in 976 Hijra (1567 A.D.) on foot and presented a large cauldron if victorious in Chittaurgarh battle. So he kept his word after winning the battle. 4800 kg of food can be cooked in it and the cost comes to about 100,000/- Indian Rupees.

Chhoti Deg : It is located on the left side of Buland Darwaza inside Sahan-e-Chiragh. It was presented by Sultan Nooruddin Jahangir in 1013 Hijra. (1613 A.D.) 2400 kg of food can be cooked in it that approximately amount to 50,000/- Indian Rupees.

Pilgrims to the shrine according to their ability and generosity propose to offer a deg. The smallest amount which can be given for the large deg is 80 maunds of rice, 28 maunds of ghee, 35 of sugar and 15 of almonds and raisins, besides saffron and other spices. The smaller deg exactly half the large one.

Three list of the ingredients cooked in the deg reproduced that the food not always sweet rice. Meat was also used, but out of deference to Non-Mulsims devotees of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty and their vegetarian principles the practice of cooking meat was ended.

Normally at weddings or functions the conventional deg capacity is max 20, 30 kg and it requires master cook to operate. Imagine cooking 5000 kg of rice in one deg and its size :kl