Baba gave sacred ash to the entire visitor. In the mosque Baba maintained sacred fire which was called dhuni. Many Hindus and Muslims were visiting Baba.

Gradually Baba shifted his accommodation to a nearby mosque. For about five years of time Baba took his accommodation under the neem tree and very often Baba used to wander in the jungle near Shirdi was very uncommunicative as Baba spent lot of his time in meditation. In the year of 1858, Baba returned to Shirdi permanently. He met many saints, fakirs and even worked as weaver as history says. After this, for a period of one year Baba left Shirdi and very little was known about sai baba during that period. Initially Baba spent about 3 years at Shirdi. Some people thought that he was mad and even hurt him physically by throwing stones at him. This tree is the first stop of a pilgrim in shirdiīaba was an unique personality who earned a huge attention towards him, in the day time he was not associated with any one and not afraid of any one. He also suggested that instead of worshipping me(sai baba), worship the tree and leave it untouched. Baba clarified that this is the holy place where his guru had done penance. In the same place they found a vessel which is in the shape of cow mouth on a wooden table. As the layers of earth passed on, they found a slab made of stone, oil lamps glowing without any oil and air too, Which was completely opposite to science.

The villagers followed the words of Baba and started digging it. Mhalspati, the village chief and a priest, once possessed by lord khandoba, uttered that there is a holy spirit here pointing towards the Sai Baba.īaba pointed towards the neem tree and asked to dig it to roots. As the days passed baba started treating her as his mother. Gradually she started bringing food to Baba. Bayajabai, wife of village chief occasionally enquired about the welfare of the sai Baba in his childhood. This made to grew lots of curiosity on young baba. People wondered looking at him that a boy at a very tender age doing deep meditation sitting in asana under a Neem tree, without food and even water for several days. Baba came to village Shirdi in Maharastra at age of 16 for the first time.

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