Know your Shirdi Sai

Gradually the curious villagers started offering food to the man, however he never asked anything from them. Sometimes he shared his food with the animals. Soon the young fakir, as he was started to be addressed, started expressing his view points with few elderly villagers.

His simple language of expression and his special power of solving the problems of poor needy and destitute soon made this less known fakir, known as Shri Sai Baba.

As the days passed, devotees began streaming into Shirdi in ever growing numbers. The village fast become a centre of pilgrimage.As gifts and presentations flowed in from devotees, the pomp and ceremony of Sai worship were evolving. Everyday Sai Baba would be a pauper having distributed all among the needy and the poor.

Sai baba strongly believed in uniformity of religion and he never distinguished between anyone on the basis of caste, creed or religion. He always made it a point not to return empty handed those who had come to him in their time of need and grief.

He performed miracles to alleviate the suffering of poor people.

On one occasion he restored the eyes of an blind elderly and in another occasion he lighted a lantern with water when there was no oil to burn it.As all good things have to end ultimately "Baba" also left his body on his own will on 15th Oct. 1918, leaving his millions of believers and followers crying.

His body was laid in the Samadhi Mandir called "Booty", which he had asked his disciple to built before his death.

His most concise message for one and all alike was "Why fear when I am here". To take refuge in Sai, is to enter into journey to reach the Divine Oasis of Love and drink deep from the Fountain of Life, the source of all Spiritual Energy.

Wherever the devotee is, Baba makes him recognize within himself his highest aspirations and goal and at one stroke, his conduct and the attitude to fellow beings is touched with the awareness of love, understanding, patience and faith.

This is the promise that Sri Sai Baba holds out to all who come to Him. Sri Sai Baba was beyond the limitations of Time and Space and thus caste, creed, position dogmas and doctrines were fundamentally unimportant to him. Nobody really knew his parentage, where he came from or which religion he practised. He claimed no possessions nor accepted any disciples or gave any specific teaching.

Sai Baba's attraction and appeal lie in this fact that he was a perfect model of the harmony of  all religions, for whom this world - with all its  sectarian and religious antagonism, had been waiting.

Sai Baba lived to awaken and lead mankind to the varities of spiritual life. He set in motion  a wave of spirituality, which is now spreading all over the globe.

All his life's activities constituted the upliftment of mankind. By first conferring temporal benefits, he drew unto himself countless souls caught up in ignorance (darkness) and opened their eyes to the true meaning of life. The miracles which manifested through Sai Baba were just such as were needed to create faith in the people and to make his devotees ethically and spiritually better evolved.

Baba did not purposefully perform miracles to show his powers. 

Amazingly, there are a phenomenally large number of Instances in which Sai Baba has been literally physically appearing before his devotees, even decades after his passing out of the physical body. Sai Baba is constantly and simultaneously proving that he Is alive in spirit and responds to our sincere prayers.He Is the One Spirit of all existence. which is God in all the forms of God, in all the saints, in all the men and in all the creatures.

All those who sincerely take to a life of inner development, Sai Baba lifts him to a higher level. Every one derives benefit according to the ripeness o f his soul and in accordance with his inner yearning.

Baba assured his devotees by his saying "I am at Shirdi and everywhere. Whatever you do, wherever you may be, ever bear this in mind, that I am always aware of everything".