Sai Satcharitra Chapter 4: Sai Baba's First Arrival in Shirdi

🙏 Om Sai Ram 🙏 Welcome to Chapter 4 of Sai Satcharitra — the sacred life story of Shirdi Sai Baba, authored by Shri Govind Raghunath Dabholkar (Hemadpant). This chapter narrates the mission of Saints and why they appear on earth age after age, Shirdi as a holy Tirth as sacred as any pilgrimage site, the mysterious first appearance of Sai Baba as a 16-year-old boy under a Neem tree in Shirdi, how nobody knew His parents, birthplace or origin — He simply appeared, the Kshirsagar story and Baba's connection to Vitthal, Das Ganu's miraculous bath with Ganga and Yamuna waters flowing from Baba's feet, and the three Wadas of Shirdi. "Whenever there is a decay of Dharma and an ascendancy of unrighteousness, I manifest Myself age after age." — Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 4, Verses 7-8). 📖 The Sai Satcharitra is a biography based on the true life stories of Sai Baba of Shirdi, originally written in Marathi and published in 1930. It is one of the most revered spiritual texts for Sai devotees worldwide.