Sai Baba of Shirdi or Shirdi Sai Baba (c. September 27, 1838 - October 15, 1918), born under an unknown name, was an Indian guru and fakir, who is regarded by his Hindu and Muslim followers as a saint. A walking example of religious and communal harmony, Sai Baba lived in a mosque, was buried in a mandir (Hindu temple), embraced several Hindu and Muslim practices and spoke in a language that dre ...

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Like the inimitable Kabir of 15th century Benares, Shri Shirdi Sai Baba eschewed narrow communalism and embraced a philosophy that sought to unite seemingly disparate religious communities, those of Muslim and Hindus. His followers believe that Sai Baba had miraculous powers and that he will be ever active and continue to do miracles from his tomb. The most important holy book of the Sai Baba movement is the Shri Sai Satcharita written by Govindrao Raghunath Dabholkar whom Sai Baba blessed and titled Hemadpant. The book ...

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Shraddha and saburi form the crux of Shirdi Sai Baba's message. By shraddha , he meant absolute faith in the guru, to look upon the teacher as God, an avatar of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Baba said: ''Do not try to get mantras or discourses from anybody. My guru never taught me any mantra. But having faith and confidence in your guru is everything. Look at me wholeheartedly and I in turn look at you similarly.''

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Sri Shirdi Sai Baba is probably known as much for the miracles he performed in the process of alleviating human suffering as for his eclectic philosophy. However, that does not take away from the fact that he epitomised a great mission - of human brotherhood and religious harmony.

Baba interpreted the religious credo in a rational and existentialist manner. God, he insisted, bore no religious identity, for He could not be fettered by any institution. To him, the spirit of a religion meant more than its identity. And Baba lived by what he propounded.

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The Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba is the subject of many allegations and intense controversy. Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles. One of Sathya Sai Baba's most long-standing critics is the Indian atheist and skeptic Basava Premanand who has published several critical books about him with telling titles such as "Lure of miracles" and "Divine Octopus".1 He has also attempted to bring Sathya Sai Baba to cour ...

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• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations
• Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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A guru shows the path of enlightenment to seekers. The guru is both a formal teacher and a spiritual preceptor. He is a storehouse of spiritual energy, which he can transmit to others. He helps the aspirant to polish his inner self till it reflects the light of truth. In the Shirdi Sai Satcharita a seeker asks Shirdi Baba: "Where to go?" Baba replies: "High up". The seeker then asks: "How to go there?" Baba answers: "Take a guide, he will take you straight and make you avoid the ditches and wild beasts in the jungle". Even avatars like Rama and Krishna subjected themselves to the tutelage of worthy gurus like Vashishta and Sandipani.

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Bala Sai Baba is an Indian guru who claims to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. He has his ashram at Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh. He should not be confused with the famous Sathya Sai Baba (born 1926-1929), another guru who claims to be Shirdi's Sai Baba reincarnation. Bala Sai Baba - External link. Homepage ...

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Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathya Narayana Raju with the family name Ratnakaram [1], November 23, 1926 or October 4, 1929 is a popular, controversial Indian guru who has millions of followers and hundreds of Sathya Sai Baba groups in many countries. In the 1940s he claimed to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba and subsequently took the fakir's name. He says that he is an avatar (incarnation) of Shiva and Shakti and an embodiment of love w ...

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• Sathya Sai Baba - Teachings
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• Sathya Sai Baba - Stances by devotees and proponents
• Sathya Sai Baba - Parliamentary governmental and political issues and responses
• Sathya Sai Baba - Sathya Sai Baba's Presence in Popular Culture
• Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography
• Sathya Sai Baba - Books by Sai Baba
• Sathya Sai Baba - Selected books by his followers
• Sathya Sai Baba - Books by sceptics and critics
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There are several people with the name Sai Baba Sai Baba of Shirdi (approx. 1838-1918), the original turn of the century fakir or guru who lived in the village Shirdi, Bombay Presidency, now Maharastra who has both Muslim and Hindu followers. Several Indian gurus claimed to the be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi Sathya Sai Baba, (born circa 1926-1929) the famous guru whose main ashram is in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. He claims that he will be re-born as Prema Sai Baba<

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Baba can mean: Beb, an Egyptian god; An F-Zero Racer The word "father" or a derivation (like papa) in several languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Turkish, Urdu, Syriac, etc.; Baba is shortened form of various persons whose full name includes baba, e.g. Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838?-1918); Ali Baba Sathya Sai Baba (born circa 1926-1929), a famous Indian guru in Puttaparthi; Meher Baba Derived from its original meaning of fath ...

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The powerful "bite" of mustard seeds, which likely evolved as a deterrent to seed-eating rodents and birds, made mustard one of the first spices known to humans. Mustard seed is found in Egyptian tombs. Mustard seed was already proverbially small in the Upanishads (Chandogya 3.14.2-3) and was so common in India that when a woman whose child had died came to Sai Baba of Shirdi and asked that he return the child to life, Sai Baba asked her to go out into the community and bring back to him a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had die ...

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Today a widely beloved saint in India, his face seen adorning the shrines, lockets, billboards and even cars of Hindus and Muslims alike, Shri Shirdi Sai Baba has a large following. While he is recognizable throughout India, his devotees are especially numerous in the state of Maharashtra, the place of his birth. The Samadhi Mandir where he is buried marks a well-known pilgrimage. There are several religious teachers, groups and organizations that promote his teachings, and devotion to him. One prominent organization that does so and also takes care of the shrines and temp ...

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Shirdi Sai Baba: Perhaps the most renowned spiritual teacher of the nineteenth and twentieth centuruies in India. His fame continues to grow in this century as well.

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Shirdi Sai Baba:

Shirdi Sai Baba. First of the triple incarnation consisting of Shirdi Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, and Prema Sai Baba. He passed away in 1918.

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Perhaps the most scandalous accusation by western ex-members, first voiced in print by Tal Brooke in 1976, is that Sai Baba is a homosexual paedophile and that he sexually abuses his young male followers and the students from his schools and the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning during private interviews.7,8 Critics say that, though most of the victims of Baba's sexual abuse are over eighteen, the alle ...

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Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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One of Sathya Sai Baba's most long-standing critics is the Indian atheist and skeptic Basava Premanand who has published several critical books about him with telling titles such as "Lure of miracles" and "Divine Octopus".1 He has also attempted to bring Sathya Sai Baba to court alleging his violation of the Gold Control Act.2 To date, Premanand has been unable to succeed legally and claims he wa ...

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Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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Further, the Australian scholar and ex-follower Brian Steel accuses the Sathya Sai Baba organization of editing the discourses to `improve' them, a matter which he asserts to be rather peculiar for the discourses of a person who claims to be truth incarnate and omniscient. Besides, he asserts, that followers are given, at least, the impression, if not explictly told, that the discourses as published in English in the Sathya Sai S ...

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Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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The few followers who debate this matter online have pointed to the small number of first hand non-anonymous testimonies of sexual abuse by Sathya Sai Baba. Consequently, they say, the allegations are not proven and Sathya Sai Baba is, like everybody else, innocent until proven otherwise. Sathya Sai Baba himself has been maligned with such claims for over fifty years yet to date has not given any detailed rebuttal of the allegations. He has said in the Christmas discourse of the year 2000 that people who tell negative stories about him have ...

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Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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Other critics say that one of the many examples of lies and propaganda is his claim that he was born on 23 November, 1926, for the most part to identify himself as the divine as asserted by Sri Aurobindo. On 24 November, 1926 the Indian guru Aurobindo said that the Divine had descended on earth. Kasturi says that Sathya Sai Baba said that referred to the Baba. Later, school records revealed several different birthdates for the boy, and some critics have deduced Kasturi endorsed by Baba made up the date to suit the ...

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Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - False claims of miracles, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Unresolved murders in Baba's private quarters, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Sexual abuse, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Not an avatar of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Other accusations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Myth making, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Political governmental and parliamentary responses, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Debating the allegations, Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba - Bibliography

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