Various hagiographies composed by his devotees provide different answers to some of these key questions. Sai Baba means “saintly faither,” and little is known with historical certainty of his early years, including where and when he was born, what his birth name was, and what religion he was born into.
Sai Baba was an itinerant renouncer who settled down in the village of Shirdi in western India in the mid-nineteenth century.
