Worship of Shirdi Sai Baba is more than a 100 years old. In an interview to Prachi Pinglay-Plumber, he resolutely holds on to his views and says he has the support of all Hindu religious groups. When BJP leader Uma Bharati said she was a Sai Baba devotee, the Shankaracharya remarked that “the builder of the Ram temple is a Muslim worshipper”. During the general elections, he slapped a TV journalist who asked him about the rise of BJP leader Narendra Modi. The 99-year-old seer is not new to controversy. In Chhattisgarh, Sai Baba devotees clashed with the Shankaracharya’s followers.
Sai Baba devotees in Varanasi burnt effigies of the Shankaracharya. The Swami proscribes any image of Sai Baba, who he says is not a guru, saint or god. He declared that Hindus should not worship Shirdi Sai Baba (1838-1918), a spiritual master whose teachings combined elements of Hinduism and Islam and who to this day has millions of followers from across India and across castes, creeds and religions. People by and large thought he was a mad Fakir, till a well known Vaishnava Saint by name Gangagir Bua, who often visited Shirdi, met Baba he could grasp Baba’s true stature of divinity and he spread word. Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of the Dwaraka Peeth in Gujarat, recently set tempers aflare. go in search of him near the neem tree oand surrounding places in the jungle, locate him and feed him.
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