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Early years
 According to the book Sai Satcharita, Sai Baba arrived at the village of Shirdi in the Ahmednagar 
District of Maharashtra, British India, when he was about 16 years old. He led an ascetic life, sitting 
motionless under a neem tree and meditating while sitting in an asana. The Shri Sai Satcharita 
recounts the reaction of the villagers:
 
The people of the village  were wonder-struck to see such a oung lad practising hard penance, not 
minding heat or cold. By day he  associated with no one, by night he was afraid of nobody.
 
His presence attracted the curiosity of the villagers, and he was regularly visited by the religiously 
inclined, including  chennai to shirdi flight packages  Mahalsapati, Appa Jogle and Kashinatha. 
Some considered him mad and threw stones at him. Sai Baba left the village, and little is known 
about him after that.
 
There are some indications that he met with many saints and fakirs, and worked as a weaver. He 
claimed to have been with the  army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi during the Indian Rebellion of 
1857. It is generally    accepted that Sai Baba stayed in Shirdi for three years, disappeared for a 
year, and returned permanently around 1858, which suggests a birth year of 1838.
Return to Shirdi
 In 1858 Sai Baba returned to Shirdi. Around this time he adopted his famous style of dress consisting of 
a knee-length one-piece Kafni robe and a cloth cap. Ramgir Bua, a devotee, testified that Sai Baba  was 
dressed  like an athlete and sported 'long hair flowing down to the end of his spine' when he arrived    in 
Shirdi, and that he never had his head shaved. It was only after Baba forfeited a wrestling match with  one 
Mohiddin Tamboli that he took up the kafni and cloth cap, articles of typical Sufi clothing. This attire 
contributed to Baba's identification as a Muslim fakir and was a reason for initial indifference and 
hostility against him in a predominantly Hindu village.
 For four to five years Baba lived under a neem tree and often wandered for long periods in the jungle 
around Shirdi. His manner was said to be withdrawn and uncommunicative as he undertook long periods 
of meditation. He was eventually persuaded to take up residence in an old and dilapidated mosque  and 
lived a solitary life there, surviving by begging for alms, and receiving itinerant Hindu or Muslim visitors. 
In the mosque he maintained a sacred fire which is referred to as a dhuni, from  chennai to shirdi
 flight packages    which  he gave sacred ashes ('Udhi') to his guests before they left. The ash was believed 
 to have healing and apotropaic powers. He performed the function of a local hakim and treated the sick 
by application of ashes. Sai Baba also delivered spiritual teachings to his visitors, recommending the 
reading of sacred Hindu texts along with the Qur'an. He insisted on the indispensability of the unbroken 
remembrance of God's name (dhikr, japa), and often expressed himself in a cryptic manner with the use of 
parables, symbols and allegories.
 
After 1910 Sai Baba's fame began to spread in Mumbai. Numerous people started visiting him, because 
they regarded him as a saint with the power of performing miracles or even as an Avatar. They built his 
first temple at Bhivpuri, Karjat.
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