After 40 years, Big B to visit Ajmer dargah

After 40 years, Big B to visit Ajmer dargah
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:51 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Amitabh Bachchan is planning to visit shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer Tuesday to untie the thread that he had tied almost 40 years ago as a 'mannat' (wish).

"I plan to go to Ajmer Sharif tomorrow... a most respected and important place of prayer... it carries the belief that if you tie a thread at the mazaar as a 'mannat', it comes true, " Big B posted on his blog.

"Almost 40 years ago when I was just about to start my work as an actor in this industry, I had visited Ajmer and had tied a thread on the filigree work that surrounds the main area... for long I had wanted to revisit it and untie it, as a fulfilment of that mannat.

"Tommorrow if all goes well, I shall be able to complete it. You untie any thread, for it is difficult to find the one that one ties almost 40 years back, and that is taken as a completion of your wish. If you wish another wish you tie another thread, " he added.

Big B says it will be a nostalgic visit.

"I was an unknown visitor then. I wait to see how it shapes up now tomorrow ... more things in life fraught with undesirability are overcome with prayer than any other...prayer, that is a dedication and belief in one such superior power that shall when called out to, hopefully deliver... I need that deliverance... and the prayer, " he posted.

The shrine, dedicated to the Sufi saint who came to Ajmer from Persia in 1192, attracts thousands of pilgrims throughout the year.
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