Saibaba

Saibaba

My dear friends, today I am going to tell you about the biography of Saibaba. Where and when Saibaba was born and when did he come to Shirdi and became a resident there.

 What miracle's did he do? I am going to tell you today in this post.

Saibaba:

   Saibaba was a spiritual teacher whom his devotees also call as Fakir and Sadguru. His devotees belonged to both Hindu and Muslim communities, while he was a Hindu or Muslim himself, it is still a mystery.


Saibaba showed everyone the way to Sadhguru and taught him the lesson of spirituality. Because of the miracles of Saibaba, people come to visit them from time to time. After that, people gradually came to know him as a famous saint. Now Saibaba is worshiped all over the world. People come to Shirdi to visit Saibaba.

Saibaba

                 

Biography of Saibaba:

     Saibaba was born on 28th September 1835 in Pathri village in Maharashtra. No information about their parents and childhood is available. The first information about him was from the book Sai Satcharitra in Shirdi village. Saibaba reached Shirdi village in Ahmednagar at the age of 16. While there he started an ascetic life under a neem tree. People started staring at them as never before had such a small child done such austerity. Saibaba meditated so much that he was not having any effect due to cold, heat and rain.
     They had no one in the day and at night they were not afraid of anyone. This austerity attracted the attention of the villagers. And many people used to come to meet them, many of them used to throw stones at them, calling them crazy. Saibaba suddenly left the village one day but no one came to know that he was called. Saibaba stayed in Shirdi for 3 years and then disappeared from there.

Saibaba to return to Shirdi:

     A year later Saibaba came back to Shirdi and settled there forever. They adopted a different style of attire, in which they wore a kneaded knee and a cap of forehead.

     One of his devotees, Ramdev Bua, said that when he came to Shirdi, he wore clothes like a player and his knees were long hair. Those he never got cut off, he looked like a saint. Seeing this form of his people, he understood the Muslim faqir due to which he was not given proper treatment. Saibaba lived under the Neem tree for 5 years, he often wandered in the forests near Shirdi for a long time.           Saibaba did not talk more than anyone because he did penance for a very long time. In Shirdi, he made a dilapidated masjid his home and lived a lonely life there. The visiting people used to give him some begging, which Baba used to live by. In that masjid, he lit fumigation and used to give the rooks out of it to the people he met. It is believed that there was healing power in that ashes.

     Saibaba became a regent for the villagers, who used to treat villagers disease from his nearby clan. Saibaba used to teach spiritual lessons to the people who came to meet him and also asked him to read the Quran along with the holy texts. He used to inspire people for the unwavering remembrance of God and expressed himself in secret ways. After 1910 Saibaba's fame reached Mumbai, after that many people started visiting him.

Everyone's slogan is:

     Saibaba raised the slogan of the master of all so that Hindu-Muslim harmony should be maintained. Saibaba followed both Hindu and Muslim religions in his life. They often used to say, trust me, all your questions will be answered. Saibaba always kept calling himself Allah Maalik with his tongue.

     Saibaba left behind no spiritual heir and no followers. Some of his followers became famous because of their spiritual identity, among them the name of Upasani, the Maharaja of Sakoni. Saibaba died on 15 October 1918 in the village of Shirdi. Baba's age is 83 years from his date. After that, his devotees used to offer aarti to Upasani Baba whenever he used to come to Shirdi.

Devotees and Temple Years of Saibaba:

    The local Khandoba Tunjari of a Shirdi was his first devotee. Baba's devotees were confined to Shirdi and surrounding villages till the 19th century. The first temple of Saibaba is located in Bhivpuri. Up to 20 thousand devotees visit his temple daily, and during festivals this figure reaches 1 lakh.

   Saibaba is specially worshiped in Odisha Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu. For the first time in 2012, an unknown devotee offered Rs 11.8 crore to the Shirdi temple. Devotees of Saibaba are spread all over the world.

Miracles of Saibaba: 

1. To burn lamps with water:

     Saibaba was very fond of burning lamps given in his masjid and other temples in the evening every day, but for the oil he used, he had to depend on the baniyos of there. He would light lamps in the evening and ask for oil from the baniyos every day. But even after giving free oil, become tired. One day he apologized to Baba and refused to give oil and said that there is no oil.
 
     Without any protest, Baba came to his masjid from there and filled the soil with water and lit the wick. They continued to burn till midnight. When the news of this reached Baniyo, baniyo went to Saibaba to apologize profusely. Baba forgives him and says do not lie again.

2. Stop the rain:

      Once a person named Rai Bahadur came to Shirdi with his wife to see Baba. Darshan started going and then the very loud Bijaliya started to crackle, it started to rain from Zoro and the storm started moving. Then Baba prayed, Allah, stop the rain. My children are going home, let them go home in peace. Then the rain stopped and the man went home with his wife.

3. Protecting the baby from the well:

      Once a 3-year-old girl named Babu fell into the well and started drowning. When the villagers reached there, they saw the girl hanging in the air, as if some unknown hands had caught her, and pulled her up. Saibaba was very dear to the innocent girl who often said that I am Baba's sister. After this incident, villagers said that all this is Baba's play.

Conclusion : 

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