The Importance Of Sai Baba

Sai Baba lived for 60 years at Shirdi during which period, He did not move out physically to any other town or city. He never saw reailway train. He was never seen by anyone reading a book or writing anything; He never signed; He did not give long scholarly discourses on philosophy or spirituality. He did not make anyone His disciple or spiritual heir. Although thousands of people rushed towards Him to seek His divine grace and protection, only a few names of His close devotees, most of whom belonged to Shirdi village, are heard.
How can such a simple and humble fakir living in a small mosque be called a ‘Universal Master’? In His own days, the villagers of Shirdi and the visitors thereto thought of Him as their local chamatkari (miracle maker) fakir having extraordinary divine powers. How more and more people in the world during the last nine decades have come to recognize His stature as a great Universal Master is indeed a topic of great importance. …show more content…
He kept people ignorant about His caste, community and parental family. He did not choose to take up the propagation of Hindu religion as His life mission. He was in ideal secularist in the best traditions of religious harmony and unity. He treated all religions with equal respect and strove to bring about communal harmony and emotional and cultural integration among the followers of different religions. Only a genuine Universal master such as Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi could bring Hindus, Muslims, Parsees, Christians and followers of other religions to such an ultimate and supreme realization that all are essentially one and that is the very basis of intrinsic unity and integration among all