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Earlier Years at Shirdi IV- Cure Ailments & His Garden
At times when he was not absorbed in contemplation, he went about meeting people and noting their ailments. He picked up herbs or got cheap drugs from shops and with their use cured the villagers of their bodily illness. His knowledge of medicine and surgery appears to have been extraordinary for he cured not merely…
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Take you over the seven seas
“Those, who are fortunate and whose demerits have vanished, take to My worship. If you always say ‘Sai, Sai’, I shall take you over the seven seas; believe in these words. And you will be certainly benefited. I do not need any paraphernalia of worship – either eight-fold or sixteen-fold. I rest there, where there is full devotion“. Baba…
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Earlier Years at Shirdi III- Age of 50+
In his earliest days, even up to 1890, Baba had a youthful love of art and music; and at night he often went to the Takia, the resting place for visiting Muslims. There he would, with his very sweet and appealing voice, sing songs mostly of Kabir or songs in Persian or Arabic, which the…
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Baba’s Earlier Years at Shirdi I-Khandoba temple
Baba’s earliest years at Shirdi were passed in complete obscurity. Baba had no home; Fakirs have none. Hermits are, therefore, to reside either at a tree-foot or chavadi or temple or other public places. When he came into Shirdi, first Baba visited Khandoba temple at the outskirts of the village, and then noting how solitary…
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WORSHIP V-Baba worship, Stages
Baba worship had and has all stages in it, and all sorts of worshippers. Baba who first objected to his worship, did by his own Antarjnana or prophetic vision foreseeing what was to follow, namely, not only individual benefits to millions, but also national benefit and ultimately benefit to the cause of religion itself for…
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WORSHIP IV- IN SAI BABA CASE
In the case of Sai Baba, his perfect purity, asceticism, general benevolence, harmlessness, non-attachment, and other virtues evoked the respect of the saints like Devadas, Janakidas, Gangagir, Anandanath and Bidkar, that met him; and also of serious and noble minded men like Mahlsapathy and his friends Appa Bhil and Tukaram Darji. Baba’s nature is well…
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WORSHIP III- Hindu Upanishads
According to higher systems of thought (In Hindu System) , every object in the Universe is a manifestation of God, and therefore might be or ought to be worshipped. The Upanishads recommend the worship of the mother, the father, the teacher and the guest (particularly, at Lunch time in olden India; even now by few)…
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WORSHIP II-Sufferer turns, mostly
It is the sufferer, Aarta, who turns to God or to a saint or to a spirit, not the contented and happy man spending his time quite easily and with joy. If, in the last case, a man is given to philosophising or investigating on a basis of curiosity to understand himself and things about…
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Worship I -Why does man worship a higher power?
The obvious answer is, it is the feeling that a higher Power can give and will be induced to give man what he needs and save him from trouble. This is true whether the Power is an invisible God or a visible man or image. There must be in the first place power and willingness…

