Shirdi Sai Baba (Birthdate unknown–15 October 1918) was an Indian spiritual master revered by people of both Hindu and Muslim traditions. He lived most of his life in Shirdi, Maharashtra, where he taught through simple words, stories and everyday actions rather than formal doctrine. He emphasized faith, compassion, charity, humility and the unity of all religions. His own background and origins remain uncertain, and he did not identify himself through conventional religious labels. For Osho, Sai Baba belonged to the category of the awakened ones, reminding us that the divine can appear in any form and that we must become aware to recognize it.&nbsp;Sai Baba was really a man belonging to the category of buddhas. Nobody knew whether he was Hindu or Mohammedan; one day suddenly he appeared in a village. Nobody knew what his name was; Sai Baba is not a name. Sai means saint, and baba means grandfather -- grandfatherly old man, and saintly. This was not his name, because whenever people asked him his name he laughed. He said, "Nobody is born with a name; I was also not born with a name.""From where do you come?" -- people wanted to know from where, which village, which state. And he always laughed and he said, "Nobody knows from where he comes -- why do you unnecessarily insist on asking questions to me which nobody else can answer? From where do you come?" The truth is, nobody knows from where one comes.He lived for almost sixty years in that village. I remembered him because of this word atiti. One of his disciples used to live three miles away from the village on his own farm and he used to bring Sai Baba's food every day. He would prepare the food himself and bring it. Until Sai Baba had eaten the food he would remain fasting.Sometimes the whole day there was such a crowd of visitors that there was no time for Sai Baba to take food -- but the man would wait. For years he had not eaten until Sai Baba had taken the food. Finally, because he was becoming very old, and coming from three miles away, going back again, and sometimes waiting the whole day, hungry ... Sai Baba said, "Why do you insist on coming here? I can manage to come."The man could not believe it. He said, "You never go anywhere ..."He said, "Of course I will not come in the form I am, but I will come. Now it is up to you whether you recognize me or not. I will try in every possible way."The next day the man took a bath, prepared delicious food -- all that he knew Sai Baba liked. A beggar came and the man said, "It is not possible. Before Sai Baba has taken, I cannot give his food to anybody. If you want, you can come after Sai Baba has taken his food." The beggar left.A dog came, and the man took his staff and ran after the dog. It was getting late, and finally he thought, "He must have joked." So in the evening he brought the food to the mosque where Sai Baba used to live. He was very angry. He said, "You deceived me."Sai Baba said, "You should not use such words. I had come twice -- once as a beggar, but you did not recognize me, and then as a dog, and you ran with a staff to beat me."The ancient scriptures of this country say that God is a guest, and any guest has to be treated as a god. In fact, everybody has to be respected as divine, because that is his essential being. You are not ordinary, you are not normal -- you are divine.Once you become available to all such experiences, more and more will be coming to you. Just don't remain confined to the world of things and objects and money and power and sensuality. Try to become more and more a man of consciousness, awareness, sincerity and truthfulness.&nbsp;SourceThe New DawnChapter #23Chapter Title: The Existence is very shyQuestion 1&nbsp;