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Lendi Baug, Shirdi — Sai Baba’s Garden, and the Nanda Deep That Has Burned for Over a Century

There is a garden in Shirdi where Sai Baba watered the plants with his own hands — and very few pilgrims stop there. 🚩

Most devotees come, do darshan, and leave. But just a few steps from the Samadhi Mandir lies Lendi Baug — the place Baba walked to twice a day, watered the plants, and sat for hours in silence.

🌳 Baba’s garden

Baba built and tended Lendi Baug himself. Every morning and afternoon he’d come here — sometimes to plant, sometimes to water, sometimes simply to sit under the neem tree.

The Lendi Yatra

When Baba walked to the garden a crowd of devotees would follow. But the rule was clear — only Baba went inside. The devotees waited at the gate. That walk itself came to be called the “Lendi Yatra”.

🪔 Nanda Deep — still burning today

In the centre of the garden, Baba dug a small pit with his own hands — about two feet deep. Inside it he placed an earthen lamp and lit it. This is the Nanda Deep.

A hundred years have passed. The lamp has never gone out. Today it’s housed inside a small marble shrine, protected by a glass case, with a neem and a peepal tree standing on either side. The flame keeps burning.

🌿 What you’ll find inside

When you walk through Lendi Baug, every trace of Baba’s presence is still there:

Baba's well

The well Baba had dug here — the water he drank from himself.

Nanda Deep

The earthen lamp Baba lit with his own hands. Burning continuously for more than a hundred years.

The peepal tree

The Navagraha idols are installed on it — a small shrine in itself.

Datt Mandir

A marble murti of Dattatreya under the audumbar tree.

Shyam Sundar's samadhi

The samadhi of Baba's beloved horse.

The devotees' samadhis

Abdul Baba, Tatya Kote Patil and Bhau Maharaj — Baba's closest devotees, resting here.

🙏 When you visit

Lendi Baug is a 5-minute walk from the Samadhi Mandir. Open from 5 AM to 10 PM. Free entry.

After darshan, walk over. Sit for a few minutes in front of the Nanda Deep. Baba himself sat here, walked here, watered the plants here. The garden is a quiet, living witness to his presence — most pilgrims never see it.

It needs no separate trip

Lendi Baug is right next to the Samadhi Mandir complex — five minutes on foot after darshan. Most pilgrims skip it only because they don't know it's there. Look for the marble shrine of the Nanda Deep at the centre.

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Lendi Baug, Shirdi — Sai Baba’s Garden, and the Nanda Deep That Has Burned for Over a Century

🌳 Baba’s garden

🪔 Nanda Deep — still burning today

🌿 What you’ll find inside

🙏 When you visit

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