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Shirdi Sai Baba Hindu ritual focuses on mantra, yantra and mudra (sacred invocations, diagrams and gestures), as well as identifying with murtis, or statues, representing Godhead.ad. Yet for certain inspired seekers the path of asceticism (renunciation of material illusion) provides the surest access to union with Divinity. Sai Baba of Shirdi, in his familiar cross-legged pose, is such a human master of God-union and is a serene vehicle to meditative concentration. Acclaimed a saint by both Hindus and Muslims, his image is ubiquitous in Indian popular culture.
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