Diet Does Not Determine Divinity: A Reality Check for Today’s Narrow Spiritual Lens

There is a strange and unfortunate trend today—especially among loud, modern Vaishnava circles—where a saint’s divinity is judged by diet.

Not by compassion.
Not by wisdom.
Not by spiritual radiance.
Just whether someone ate meat.

Sai Baba Beyond Labels: Sadhguru, Avdhoot, and the Truth Behind His Samadhi

In recent times, a painful and misleading narrative has gained traction online—reducing Sai Baba of Shirdi to the label “Chand Miya” and attempting to separate him from the Hindu spiritual landscape altogether. This reduction is not just historically weak; it is spiritually shallow. More than anything, it exposes a fundamental misunderstanding of who Sai Baba truly was.

Sai Baba’s Eleven Promises: Not a List, but a Living Assurance

When devotees speak of Shirdi Sai Baba’s Eleven Promises, they often imagine a hidden page in the Sai Satcharitra—a neat list, perhaps revealed in a single moment of divine declaration. But anyone who has actually read the Satcharitra knows this is not how Sai Baba taught.

The Nine Forms of Bhakti — A Sai Baba–Inspired Guide Through the Guru Tattva

Devotion (bhakti) is often described as a single path, but the saints remind us that it is a living spectrum—a flowering of the heart in many colours, each petal opening in its own way. In the Sri Sai Satcharitra, Shirdi Sai Baba highlights the Navavidha Bhakti, the nine classical forms of devotion. Though ancient, they remain powerful, practical, and deeply relevant to seekers today.

Ganesha as Maha-Guru in the Ganapatya Tradition

In the vast and intricate spiritual landscape of Sanatana Dharma, few deities embody the role of a Guru as profoundly as Shri Ganesha. While He is widely worshipped as the remover of obstacles and the granter of auspicious beginnings, there exists a deeper, more esoteric current of devotion wherein Lord Ganesha is not merely a deity, but the Supreme Brahman—the formless, eternal Guru of all Gurus. This understanding finds its purest expression in the ancient Ganapatya tradition, one of the six major sects of Hinduism.