Sai Baba of Shirdi

Sai Baba
Sai Baba (photograph before 1918)
Personal
Died	(1918-10-15)15 October 1918[1] Shirdi, Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra, India)
Resting place	Samadhi Mandir, Shirdi
Religion	Unknown
Nationality	Indian
Organization
Temple	SHRI SAIBABA SAMADHI MANDIR, Shirdi
Website	sai.org.in

Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838? – 15 October 1918),^[2] also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian spiritual master and fakir, considered to be a saint,^[3] revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime.

According to accounts from his life, Sai Baba preached the importance of "realisation of the self" and criticised "love towards perishable things". His teachings concentrated on a moral code of love, forgiveness, helping others, charity, contentment, inner peace, and devotion to God and Guru.

Sai Baba condemned discrimination based on religion or caste. He had both Hindu and Muslim followers, but when pressed on his own religious affiliations, he refused to identify himself with one to the exclusion of the other.^[4] His teachings combined elements of Hinduism and Islam: he gave the Hindu name Dwarakamayi to the mosque in which he lived,^[5] practised both Hindu and Muslim rituals, and taught using words and figures that drew from both traditions. According to the Shri Sai Satcharita, a hagiography written shortly after his death, his Hindu devotees believed him to be an incarnation of the Hindu deity Dattatreya.^[6][7]

Dwarkamai Mandir, where Baba lived, with a temple inside, is the only one of its kind and importance in India. Another interesting aspect of the dwarkamai mandir is that the Dhuni, or holy fire that Sai Baba lit here has been always kept burning to this day.There is a Neem tree beside the Samadhi Mandir and There is a Gurusthan under the Neem tree where, according to Baba, the original samadhi of his own guru is located and Where Baba was found during his Balyog or Yuva avastha.This place is considered to be a very important because of this reason.

Another interesting fact of this Neem Tree is that the Leaves of this Neem Tree is Sweet , beacuse of this reason the devotes consider to be miracles by Baba.