From joining as a cleaner at Niloufer Tea Stall to becoming its owner – A Remarkable Life Journey.

Baburao, the owner of the tea shop beside Hyderabad’s Niloufer Hospital, recently offered a gold sacred thread (yajnopavita) studded with diamonds worth about 4.5 crore rupees to Lord Venkateswara of Tirumala. As the news spread across the state, devotees have been congratulating Baburao. Many wealthy people, like Ambani, have donated not just 4.5 crores but even 100 crore rupees to the Lord. Yet, why is Baburao’s offering and his golden yajnopavita the main topic of discussion..??

● What is the real story..??

According to Baburao, during one of his earlier visits for darshan, as he was leaving the temple, he heard a voice saying, ‘Will you offer a sacred thread..??’ Taking it as the Lord’s command meant specifically for him, he got the yajnopavita made within a month and offered it. Leaving that aside do you know the background of the man who offered this diamond-studded yajnopavita worth 4.5 crores..?? Baburao once joined the same Niloufer tea stall, near the same Niloufer Hospital, as a cleaner. When he was young, he came to Hyderabad from Adilabad with nothing but hunger driving him. Without a ticket, he lay down in a train and reached Hyderabad. He first joined a clothing shop, but was fired after 15 days. With nowhere to go, he slept on the Nampally railway platform, bathed there and survived doing odd jobs. Later, he got work as a cleaner in the Niloufer tea shop. Impressed by his hard work, quickness and honesty, the owner promoted him to waiter, then supervisor and eventually the tea master himself promoted him further. After Baburao became the tea master, the owner handed over the shop to him with one condition only Irani chai and Osmania biscuits must be sold there.
From then on, luck favored Baburao. He turned the small tea stall into a thriving business expanded into three bakeries and opened other Niloufer Tea Stalls across the city, earning crores. Yet Baburao never forgot his past. Even now, he provides free meals to poor patients and their attendants visiting Niloufer Hospital. If someone dies and their family cannot afford to take the body back to their native place, he helps them financially. He also takes care of the adjoining temple’s maintenance. Beyond that, he donates generously but quietly, without publicity. He has never forgotten his roots he often tells customers, during free moments at the tea shop, how he once struggled for food, worked around the Nampally railway station, slept on the platform and bathed there. To this day, Baburao continues his social service. His devotion to God and loyalty to his employer remain unchanged. That is why, as a devotee, he offered that sacred gift to Lord Venkateswara. Everyone’s faith is their own.