Did Sai Baba ever eat the flour himself?

No. He never made roti from it nor distributed it as food. The flour was meant to be scattered at the village boundary — that was the whole point of the ritual.

What happened to the four women who divided the flour?

Baba scolded them sharply — "Whose father's wealth are you dividing?" — and ordered them to scatter the flour at the village boundary. The same flour that, once scattered, broke the cholera outbreak.

What do the two stones of the chakki represent?

In the Satcharitra reading, the two stones stand for karma and bhakti — the two grinding surfaces of a devotee's life. Baba's lesson: only when both are aligned does the grain (the ego) reduce to flour (surrender).

Can I still see the original chakki at Dwarkamai today?

Yes. The hand-mill Baba used is preserved inside the Dwarkamai mandir at Shirdi. It sits in a glass-fronted enclosure on the right as you enter the main hall.

TripSaffron — Why Sai Baba Ground Wheat Every Morning

Q: Why did Sai Baba grind wheat every morning?

In the surface story, Baba was symbolically grinding away a cholera epidemic that was sweeping Shirdi. In the deeper Satcharitra reading, he was grinding the karma, sorrow and ego of his devotees — for sixty years.

🚩 Why did Sai Baba grind wheat every morning? — Nobody understood the real reason.

In Shirdi, every dawn brought the same strange sight. Baba would sit inside Dwarkamai, pull out the hand-mill, and silently begin to grind wheat. He never baked roti from it. He never gave the flour to anyone. So why this daily ritual? (For another Dwarkamai lila that teaches the same kind of lesson without saying a word, see the night Baba lit the lamps with water.)

What he ground

Wheat — every single morning, by hand, in Dwarkamai. Sixty years without a break.

Why Sai Baba Ground Wheat Every Morning — The Cholera Story

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🌾 The day four women tried to take the flour

🪔 Why the village boundary?

🌾 The deeper reading

🙏 Frequently asked questions