11/14/2023 0 Comments Sai baba shirdi![]() He never kept any food in reserve for the next meal. He begged for alms and shared what he got with his devotees and all the creatures around him. Under the cover of simplicity He silently worked for the spiritual transformation and liberation of innumerable souls - human beings and animals alike, who were drawn to Him, by an unseen forces. He enacted all these simple traits only to hide His real identity as the God incarnate. His anger was evidently directed at unseen forces. But his anger never prevented his compassion dealing with the devotees. In the moments of towering rage people with him thought it was ungovernable rage. But His external appearance was of simple, illiterate, moody, emphatic - at times fiery and abusive and at times full of compassion and love. He was no ordinary fakir but an ' Avatar ' (incarnation) of a very high order. He always declared that Fakiri (Holy poverty) was far superior to worldly richness. He donned a long shirt - 'Kafni' and tied a cloth around his head, and twisted it into a flowing plait like manner behind his left ear.He used a piece of sackcloth for his seat and slept on it with a brick as his pillow. Sometimes he sang some popular songs of Kabir. The songs he sang were mostly in Persian or Arabic. In those early years of his life he used to go to 'Takia', the public night shelter for moslem visitors to the village.There in the company of sojourning devotees and fakirs, he used to dance and sing in divine bliss, with small tinkles tied around his ankles. Another aspect of Sai Baba's personality was his love for song and dance. He had a body of athlete built and in his earlier days he was fond of wrestling. This mosque 'Dwarkamai' - abode of Sai Baba became Mother of Mercy for all the time to come. He referred to this mosque, where He resided till the end, as 'Dwarkamai' (Dwarka was the place where Lord Shri Krishna stayed to fulfill His divine Advent). She would boldly approach him, serve the meal and return home.Īfter sometime as though out of compassion for her, Sai Baba ceased wandering and moved into a dilapidated mosque in the outskirts of the village. Often she found Sai Baba sitting under some tree in deep meditation, calm and motionless. ![]() Bayyaji Bai felt deeply motivated by this Divine Saint, and with her motherly instinct she used to walk miles on end into the jungles in search of him, carrying food in a basket on her head. The first set of villagers who regarded this saintly figure were Mhalsapati, Tatya Kote, Bayyaji Bai and few others. In the early days of his stay at Shirdi he spent his time either wandering in the outskirts of village and neighboring thorny jungles or sitting under the neem tree totally self absorbed. ![]() On the arrival at Shirdi, he was immediately recognized by someone as the same anonymous saintly personality who used to be seated under the neem tree a few years earlier and, greeted Him as "YA SAI" Welcome SAI ! This time he accompanied a wedding procession as guest of honor. The second advent of Baba at Shirdi, around 1858 was interestingly quite different from the first. Sai Baba of these younger days remained a stranger staying under the neem tree for some time and then suddenly he left Shirdi to come back again sometime in 1858, and stayed on there till he left his gross body in the year 1918. However, even this date is not definitely noted. ![]() He was first noticed in the outskirts of the village Shirdi, seated under a 'neem' (margosa) tree, about the year 1854. In the Divine play it was designed as such, that He subtly inspired this person to call Him by this name, which was most appropriate for His self-allotted mission.Īll that we definitely know of Sai Baba is that his arrival at Shirdi was anonymous. 'Baba' means father as an expression of reverence. One of the persons who first came in contact with him at Shirdi addressed him spontaneously as 'Sai' which means Savior, Master or Saint. In fact, in the face of his spiritual brilliance such queries do not have much relevance. Like most of the perfect saints he left no authentic record of his birth and early life before arriving at Shirdi. Sai Baba, a personification of spiritual perfection and an epitome of compassion, lived in the little village of Shirdi in the state of Maharashtra (India) for sixty years.
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