Sai Baba

About Sai Baba

Sai Baba lived as a wandering fakir in the Maharashtra village of Shirdi, making his home in an old mosque he named Dwarakamai. He wore a simple kafni robe and a cloth tied around his head, and kept a dhuni (sacred fire) burning there, handing devotees its udi (ash) as both medicine and blessing. He sat under a neem tree whose bitter leaves, his hymns say, tasted like nectar. His whole teaching fit two words: Shraddha (faith) and Saburi (patience). Devotees mark his 1918 mahasamadhi every Vijayadashami at Shirdi.