Shirdi Sai

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1John2_26
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Shirdi Sai

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http://www.saibaba.us/index.html

Anyone practice this faith?

I drive by a church-like building that seems to practice this faith.

Is it Hindu or what?

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1John2_26 wrote:http://www.saibaba.us/index.html

Anyone practice this faith?

I drive by a church-like building that seems to practice this faith.

Is it Hindu or what?
No it isn't Hindu (as I understand it). It is more a guru worship...the guru in this case being Sai Baba, some of whose teaching may have commonalities with Hindu beliefs. It gets even more confusing as there are (at least) two Sai Babas. The one that this system reveres (who died in 1918) and another who is a still living afro haired con man.
"Whatever you are totally ignorant of, assert to be the explanation of everything else"

William James quoting Dr. Hodgson

"When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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