![]() ![]() After some time he left the village, and it is unknown where he stayed at that time or what happened to him. His presence attracted the curiosity of the villagers and the religiously-inclined such as Mhalsapati, Appa Jogle and Kashinatha regularly visited him, while others such as the village children considered him mad and threw stones at him. By day he associated with no one, by night he was afraid of nobody." The Sai Satcharita describes the response of the villager: " The people of the village were wonder-struck to see such a young lad practicing hard penance, not minding heat or cold. In spite of the fact that there is no agreement among biographers about the date of this event, it is for the most part acknowledged that SaiBaba stayed in Shirdi for three years, disappeared for a year and returned for all time(permanently) around 1858, which posits a possible birth year of 1838.] He led an ascetic life, sitting still (motionless) under a neem tree and meditating while sitting in an asana. SaiBaba reportedly arrived at the village of Shirdi in the Ahmednagar region of Maharashtra India, when he was around sixteen years of age. ![]() This dichotomy has given rise to two major theories regarding SaiBaba's background, with the majority of writers supporting the Hindu background over the Islamic, while others join both the hypotheses (that Sai Baba was first raised by a fakir and afterward by a master). On another event, Baba reportedly said that the fakir's wife had left him in the care of a Hindu guru, Venkusa of Selu, and that he had stayed with Venkusa for twelve years as his disciple. ![]() ![]() He had allegedly stated to a close follower, Mhalsapati, that he has been born of Brahmin parents in the village of Pathri and had been endowed into the care of a fakir in his earliest stages. SaiBaba was infamous for giving vague, misleading and opposing replies to questions concerning his parentage and origins, tersely expressing the information was unimportant. The Historical Researches into genealogies in Shirdi give support to the theory that Baba could have been born with the name Haribhau Bhusari. Despite the fact that SaiBaba's origins are unknown, a few signs exist suggest that he was born not far from Shirdi. ![]()
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