Baba came to village Shirdi in Maharastra at age of 16 for the first
time. People wondered looking at him that a boy at a very tender age
doing deep meditation sitting in asana under a Neem tree, without food
and even water for several days. This made to grew lots of curiosity on
young baba. Bayajabai, wife of village chief occasionally enquired about
the welfare of the sai Baba in his childhood. Gradually she started
bringing food to Baba. As the days passed baba started treating her as
his mother. Mhalspati, the village chief and a priest, once possessed by
lord khandoba, uttered that there is a holy spirit here pointing
towards the Sai Baba.
Baba pointed towards the neem tree and asked to dig it to roots. The villagers followed the words of Baba and started digging it. As the layers of earth passed on, they found a slab made of stone, oil lamps glowing without any oil and air too, Which was completely opposite to science. In the same place they found a vessel which is in the shape of cow mouth on a wooden table. Baba clarified that this is the holy place where his guru had done penance. He also suggested that instead of worshipping me(sai baba), worship the tree and leave it untouched. Till today no one touched it. This tree is the first stop of a pilgrim in shirdi
Baba was an unique personality who earned a huge attention towards him, in the day time he was not associated with any one and not afraid of any one. Some people thought that he was mad and even hurt him physically by throwing stones at him. Initially Baba spent about 3 years at Shirdi. After this, for a period of one year Baba left Shirdi and very little was known about sai baba during that period. He met many saints, fakirs and even worked as weaver as history says.
In the year of 1858, Baba returned to Shirdi permanently. For about
five years of time Baba took his accommodation under the neem tree and
very often Baba used to wander in the jungle near Shirdi was very
uncommunicative as Baba spent lot of his time in meditation. Gradually
Baba shifted his accommodation to a nearby mosque. Many Hindus and
Muslims were visiting Baba. In the mosque Baba maintained sacred fire
which was called dhuni. Baba gave sacred ash to the entire visitor.
People believe that ash is the best medicine to heal for all health
issues.
Baba was god for all and used to participate in all religious festival. Baba had a habit of cooking and the same was distributed among all devotees as "Prasad" at the time of their visit. Baba best pass time was singing (religious) and dancing. Many believed that baba was a saint and even as god. As the time passed on the volume of visitors to Shirdi gradually increased.
Baba pointed towards the neem tree and asked to dig it to roots. The villagers followed the words of Baba and started digging it. As the layers of earth passed on, they found a slab made of stone, oil lamps glowing without any oil and air too, Which was completely opposite to science. In the same place they found a vessel which is in the shape of cow mouth on a wooden table. Baba clarified that this is the holy place where his guru had done penance. He also suggested that instead of worshipping me(sai baba), worship the tree and leave it untouched. Till today no one touched it. This tree is the first stop of a pilgrim in shirdi
Baba was an unique personality who earned a huge attention towards him, in the day time he was not associated with any one and not afraid of any one. Some people thought that he was mad and even hurt him physically by throwing stones at him. Initially Baba spent about 3 years at Shirdi. After this, for a period of one year Baba left Shirdi and very little was known about sai baba during that period. He met many saints, fakirs and even worked as weaver as history says.
Baba was god for all and used to participate in all religious festival. Baba had a habit of cooking and the same was distributed among all devotees as "Prasad" at the time of their visit. Baba best pass time was singing (religious) and dancing. Many believed that baba was a saint and even as god. As the time passed on the volume of visitors to Shirdi gradually increased.
Religious View Of Sai Baba Of Shirdi
Baba was completely opponent to orthodoxy, Hinduism, Christianity and
muslim. Baba asked his devotees to lead a ordinary life. He asked his
followers to chant holy words ,god's name and asked his devotees to
read their respective holy books. He followed all hindu rituals and
permitted muslims to follow Namaz, reading of Quran at festival times
One of his well known epigrams, "Sabka Malik Ek " ("One God governs all").
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