At the beginning of eighteenth century a young bearded man with sparkling eyes took shelter in a mosque, in Shirdi Village (of Maharshtra State, In India) . Nobody knew from where this stranger had come, who hardly spoke a word and stayed there.

     Gradually the curious villagers started offering food to the man, but he never asked anything from them. Sometimes he shared his food with the animals. His simple language of expresssion and his special power of solving the problems of poor needy and destitutes soon made this less known fakir, known as Shri Sai Baba. As the days passed, devotees started streaming into Shirdi in ever growing numbers. But Sai Baba’s life of a Fakir remained calm, undisturbed, unaltered and therein is the saint’s Spiritual glory.

      He always felt anguished over the fact that all those who came to him were more

for their own personal problems and not for attaining the ultimate goal of reaching God. 

      Sai baba strongly believed in uniformity of religion and he never distinguished anyone on the basis of caste, creed or religion. He performed miracles to alleviate the suffering of poor people.

     Sai Baba was Unique.  The lmmense Energy that was manifest in the body of Sai was moving and is still moving in a mysterious way, creating and recreating itself everywhere, beyond the comprehension of time and space. Yet, he lived with the common folk as a penniless fakir, wearing a torn kafni, sleeping over a mat while resting his head on a brick. He radiated a mysterious smile and a deep inward look, of a peace that passeth all understanding. This Omnipresent and Omniscient Sri Sai Baba who left his mortal 

body in 1918.  The devotees felt him as “God descended on Earth”. He came to serve mankind, to free them from the clutches of fear. His most concise message ,“Why fear when I am here”. To take refuge in Sai, is to enter into a journey to reach the Divine Oasis of Spirituality.   Caste, creed, position dogmas and doctrines were fundamentally unimportant to him. Nobody really knew his parentage, where he came from or which religion he practiced.  He claimed no possessions nor accepted any disciples or gave any specific teaching.

     This anonymity lent a strange facet to his interaction with the people To Hindus he was an orthodox Brahmin. He lived in a mosque but always referred to it as“Dwarkamay!” (Lord Krishna’s birth place is Dwaraka). To the Moslems he was a fakir living in a mosque observing the disciplines of Islam, uttering“Allah Malik” (God is the master) guiding Muslim seekers along the lines of their own religion. To the Parsis he was the sacred rare worshipper. His life was a living manifestation of the Sermon of the Christ and of the Eight-fold path of the Buddha.  Baba 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 varieties of spiritual life. He set in motion a wave of spirituality.    

      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. 

     A person who miraculously resembling Shirdi Sai Baba came to Sai Baba temple in Zaheerabad, Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. It was clearly seen in the CCTV footage.  His attire, body language and walking everything resembled Sai Baba. After entering the temple, the person asked the priest of the temple to arrange Aarti.  Later he asked the priest to offer him ghee.  Initially the priest was dumbstruck with all the sudden happenings.  But by the time the priest realized that it was Sai Baba who came in person.  Baba had disappeared. This miracle spread like wildfire and the devotees started visiting the temple in huge numbers. (caught on CCTV camera on 10/01/2014 at 9.05AM )