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Shirdi
Sai Baba of Shirdi is remembered through the Shirdi Sansthan, its sacred places and devotional accounts. Shirdi is in Ahilyanagar district, formerly known as Ahmednagar, in Maharashtra. Keep this identity distinct from Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi: the names, portraits and institutional contexts should not be substituted for one another.
Accounts of the life and tradition
Nothing about his origin is known. He appeared at Shirdi as a young man, left, returned some years later with a wedding party, and stayed for around sixty years. He lived in a ruined mosque, kept a dhuni burning in it, begged for food from a handful of houses, and gave away what he received. He performed acts his devotees recorded as miraculous - lighting lamps with water when the oil-sellers refused him, healing, knowing what had not been told him - and the accounts of these are the Sai Satcharita's substance. His teaching was compressed into two Urdu phrases he repeated: Sabka Malik Ek, one master of all, and Allah Malik.
Where accounts differ
His birth, parentage and religion are unknown and every account that states them confidently is constructing rather than reporting. The claim that he was born a Brahmin and raised by a fakir appears in some traditions and is not established. Whether he was a Sufi, a Nath yogi, both or neither is argued and the evidence supports no clean answer. The relationship to Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, who claimed to be his reincarnation, is a separate and contested matter and the two followings are distinct - conflating them is the commonest error about him.
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