BHAGAWAN BABA OF SHIRDI

BABA'S EMERGENCE

Among several types of such godmen, Baba of Shridi is a brilliant star that joined the galaxy of spiritual giants on 15 x 1918 at the age of eighty approximately. This date of his Mahasamadhi is a historic truth recorded in golden letters on the devotion soaked hearts of his adorers, whose phenomenal number exceeds millions, living in and out of India. Strangely enough, the details concerning as when he was born and where, who the parents arc known to none, perhaps he too did not. Is it possible to keep account of those trivials, when he was born again and again on his mission of emancipating his fellowmen? But his awareness of the heavenly parents with whom he had constant communion, and how he measured the dimensions of that cosmic form of the Lord are recorded to such precision that precision itself wonders at that perfection. His life span covering over eight decades, amidst the simple folk is an evidence of the spectacular victory of spiritualism over materialism - a glittering record of selfless service and guiltless simplicity. His forceful spiritual personality has indeed left an indelible mark on the minds of devotees. His rustic simplicity and idealistic sublimity are far superior to fake saints, who rolling in luxury display their parrot learning in preaching austerity, piety etc., but know not the ABC of their composition or connotation. Has not he entered a didapilated mosque and left it a place of worship of universal significance? When he came to Shridi, he chose that ruined Masjid and named it Dwarakamai - Gate way of the Mother, which became centre of his activities and place of worship for nearly six decades. He sanctified it, and it in turn deified him.

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