Sai Baba of Shirdi

Sai Baba of Shirdi

Sai Baba of Shirdi is a name to conjure with. In fact, his name is used as a sacred and powerful mantra by thousands of persons. He is not a non-historic or remote personality, but one who was with us in the flesh till 1918, moving familiarly with tens of thousands and that for decades.

Sai Baba’s birth, parentage, and antecedents, no person that we have met can give any account. But Baba himself gave some hints which have been verified and worked upon. He seems to have been born some time between 1820 and 1850 A.D. in the village Pathri, in the Nizam’s State. His parents were Brahmins who handed him over at a tender age to a fakir. After the fakir’s death, some five years later, the child passed in the care of his Guru Deva, Gopal Rau Deshmukh, a great bhakta of God Venkateswara of Tirupati. After a splendid period of ten years of intense love and devotion towards his Guru-God, the boy obtained the Guru’s grace. As directed by the Guru, he went westward and came to Shirdi in the Bombay Presidency (Ahmednagar District), and after some wanderings, settled and spent the rest of his life there. He passed away on the 15th October, 1918. The tomb erected over his remains is now the Sai Mandir attracting the devotion of persons from all parts of the country. Almost everyone like to visit Shirdi Sai Temple, chennai to shirdi flight package is organized by Sri Sairam Subhayatra provide a safe, secure journey. Sai Baba, the soul of truth and reality has never spoken untruth.

The early decades spent by Baba at Shirdi are almost wholly forgotten. He was first living under a margosa tree leading the life of a perfect ascetic. Next, he removed to a dilapidated mosque in the village, and resided there to the end of his life. He had nothing that he could call ‘mine’. For thirty years and more, he was leading the life of holy poverty, and then his devotees whom he affectionately termed his children, pressed the pomp and show of royalty upon him. For the last ten years of his life, he appeared as a prince though he behaved throughout like a poor fakir, who either owned nothing or everything in the world. His was the life of perfect celibacy.

Among his qualities, the most notable was, of course, love - uniform, all embracing, intense love, showered on all and at all times, without any idea of the extent of sacrifice involved or any idea of recompense - truly maternal love at its highest. God is love and the means to reach God is also love. Baba was nothing but the embodiment of love. This love was perpetually manifesting itself in every act, word, and thought of his, though at times hidden by his ascetic modes of life. In the beginning he would move and talk with none except under strict necessity. However, when there was any suffering in the village, he would run to relieve it and would accept no recompense. Best chennai to shirdi tour package is organized by Sri Sairam Subhayatra. Where there were saints or holy people, he would be found in their company, and in the early eighties of the 19th century, some of them revealed the fact that Baba was like a diamond lying on a dung hill, and that the world would one day discover what a great Rama Bhakta he was.

At the time of his arrival at Shirdi, Baba appears to have been a thorough adept in the prema marga, the path of love and evidently possessed of all power, which naturally issues from such love. He seldom cared to use his power, but once, a manifestation was wrung out of him. The shopkeepers who supplied him gratis with oil, one day refused the supply, and gathered in a scoffing mood to see what the ‘mad fakir’, as they styled him, would do without oil for his lamps. Baba simply filled up his empty earthen lamps with water, and the wicks inserted in the water were burning all night! This gave a rude shock to the villagers’ notion that Baba was negligible and mad fakir.

Baba however was never negligible. From the very beginning, he was always helping humanity at first by dispensing medicines and later by dispensing ‘udhi’ i.e., vibuthi or ashes from the fire that he always kept burning by him. Udhi has played a very important part in the grace shown by Baba to people all these years, and it is still being sought and used by people all over the country. But, as Baba explained, it is not the Udhi itself that works the wonder. The devotees’ bhakti (faith and devotion), for instance, has always to take its part in the good results produced by the udhi. The udhi was generally the material with which His blessings were issued. The udhi is the cup enshrining the really valuable blessings of Baba. Our shirdi tour package from chennai gives comfort feel, safe and happy journey. But these blessings often came and do come without the udhi.

When people came to him, he would give them the udhi and say ‘Allh bale karege’ (i.e. God will bless) and everything he uttered proved effective. Once he said ‘I go on speaking things here, and things happen there.’ Baba’s words were words of authority. When he said that there should be water on a waterless rock, water was found there. When he addressed the elements they obeyed him.

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