A Beacon in the Dark
A Sadguru is one who triggers spiritual development in his devotee and takes him towards God-realization. He appears in many forms in the life of a devotee: in some instances as a friend, or guide and during other occasions as parent, sibling, householder, […]
Benevolent Baba
Shri Tatya Saheb Noolkar was a staunch devotee of Baba. Once while he was a Sub-Judge at Pandharpur, he had pain in his eyes and had gone to his brother who is a doctor at Jalgaon for treatment. After learning that Gurupoornima […]
Enabler of Spiritual Evolution
If we make Shri Sainath our sole refuge, he would make us realize that ‘Brahman is the Reality and the world an illusion’. As depicted in Shri Sai Satcharitra, during his tenure in Shirdi, Baba, through the physical act of grinding, annihilated […]
Inner Worship
Hemadpant has given us a novel form of worship. Let us, he says, use hot water in the form of tears of joy to wash the sadguru’s feet. Let us besmear His body with the sandal paste of pure love. Let us […]
He converts Impossible into Possible
Moreshwar W. Pradhan was an ardent devotee of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. He was a Judge in Bombay High Court. Once during his visit to Shirdi, he arranged a special dinner in Baba’s honour. On Baba’s recommendation, Pooran-poli was prepared and the guests […]
The All Merciful Messiah
During the sixty-odd years Baba stayed in shirdi, he helped innumerable people with both their temporal and spiritual predicaments. Countless were benefited in mysterious ways, difficult to comprehend for the rationale-minded individuals. Below is one such instance: Lakshman Govind Munge, a resident […]
You always Hold the hand of the Devotee
The following words of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba as quoted in Chapter Six of Shri Sai Satcharita, guarantee the welfare of his devotees: “It is My special characteristic that I always look to, and provide for, the welfare of those devotees who […]
The All-pervasive Eternal Master
Shri Shirdi Sai Baba left his mortal coil one hundred years ago on this very day of Vijaya Dashmi. Experiences of millions of devotees across the globe confirm the following assurance given by Baba: “Though I be no more in flesh and […]
Om Prema Moortaye Namah!
R B Purandhare was an ardent lover of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. Baba’s kindness towards him was remarkable even from the beginning. Why should Baba care so much for this petty clerk who went to Shirdi for the first time? That is the […]
Hari Sitaram Dixit alias Kakasaheb Dixit was a staunch devotee of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. He was a well-known solicitor of Mumbai who was persuaded to visit Shri Sai Baba in 1909 by his friend Nana Saheb Chandorkar. He was largely responsible […]