God has a sense of humor: Incidents with Sri Sathya Sai Baba An amazing experience with Sathya Sai and the Suka Naadi- Sai Baba - by Sai Devotee Arvind B Vibhuti manifestation miracles in Puttaparthi The day Swami bled to see His children smile. The Shivarathri of my life.Sai Experience God's Omnipresence: Experiences of great proximity to Sri Sathya Sai Vibhuti manifestations: Sathya Sai keeps up His word and His divine pranks In seconds but rebuilt over years - the love story of Vijaya Sunder with his Memorable Christmas morning darshan of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Many books have been written on these events.Sri Sathya Sai Baba Vibhuti manifestation - Sai Miracle stories:Ĥ4. His devotees have many stories and experiences to tell. They talked and wrote about how they (and others) were the witnesses of his unusual Yogic powers: levitation, entering a state of Samādhi at wish, even removing his limbs and sticking them back to his body ( Khanda Yoga) or doing the same with his intestines.Īccording to his followers he appeared to them after his death, in dreams, visions and even in bodily form, whence he often gave them advice. Some of them even wrote about them in books. Numerous inhabitants of Shirdi talked about these miracles. Some of them were: bilocation, exorcisms, curing the incurably sick, helping his devotees in need in a miraculous way, reading the minds of others. Sai Baba's millions of disciples, followers and devotees believe that he had performed many miracles. Hemadpant: Baba allowed him to keep memos and write Sai Sat Charitra.Madhava Rao Deshpande later known as Shama, one of the staunch devotees of Sai Baba.Tatya Patil: Ganapathi Rao's son had immense faith in Sai Baba and served him until Sai Baba died.Ganapathi Rao: Popularly known as Das Ganu, police Constable, later resigned to become an ascetic.He is the first one to have addressed Baba as Sai Baba. Mhasalapathi: Priest of Khandoba Temple in Shirdi.Nana Chandorkar: Deputy Collector – legend has it that Baba saved his daughter from labor complications).The Shirdi Sai Baba movement is one of the main Hindu religious movements in English-speaking countries.Īccording to estimates the Sai mandir in Shirdi is visited by around twenty thousand pilgrims a day and during religious festivals this number amounts to a hundred thousand. Sai Baba mandirs and organisations of his devotees have been built in countries including Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA. Only a part of his followers and devotees belong to the Shri Saibaba Sansthan or to other religious organisations that worship him.īeyond India the Shirdi Sai movement has spread to other countries such as the U.S. The Shirdi Sai Baba movement is partially organised. Shirdi is among the major Hindu places of pilgrimage.
Some ordinary non-religious publishing houses (such as Sterling Publishers) publish books about Shirdi Sai written by his devotees. According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Religion there is at least one Sai Baba mandir in nearly every Indian city. The devotees of Shirdi Sai Baba have spread all over India. The first ever Sai Baba temple is situated at Bhivpuri,Karjat. A religious organisation of Sai Baba's devotees called the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust is based there. Shirdi Baba is especially revered and worshipped in the state of Maharashtra. The Sai Baba mandir in Shirdi is active and every day worship of Sai is conducted in it.
Later (in the last years of Sai Baba's life) Christians and Zoroastrians started joining the Shirdi Sai movement. During his life Hindus worshipped him with Hindu rituals and Muslims revered him greatly, considering him to be a saint. Since 1910 numerous Hindus and Muslims from all parts of India started coming to Shirdi. It started developing in the 20th century and even faster in 1910 with the Sankirtans of Das Ganu (one of Sai's devotees) who spread Sai Baba's fame to the whole of India. However, in the 19th century Sai Baba's followers were only a small group of Shirdi inhabitants and a few people from other parts of India. A local Khandoba priest - Mhalsapathy - is believed to have been his first devotee. The Shirdi Sai Baba movement began in the 19th century, during his life, while he was staying in Shirdi.