[Though this story happened around 2008, I didn’t have a camera back then, so the attached photos are from a later date, around 2010 to 2015. We have no photo of the young aghori baba from the story, nor did we ever see him again.]

Over the years I have eaten many strange things given by sadhus, and many other things I avoided eating for various reasons. Its something people won’t understand unless you live with many sadhus over a long time. You have to balance being rational with not offending the sadhus, and you have to make tough decisions sometimes, and sometimes you even have to pretend to eat the things to not offend them. All sorts of things.

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There was a mystic sadhu who lived in a garbage pile in the remote village of Mettukuppam in South India. We called him Vadalur Baba, as that was the name of the nearest city, and that city at one point in time had the famous ashram and residence of his guru saint Vallalar (1823 – 1874).

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A comparison between the 1800s and today of Rock Fort Ganesh Temple (Uchi Pillaiyar Temple) in Thiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.

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Back in May our close sadhu friend Dayalu Baba passed away, and as per customs a special puja and satsanga was held on the 21st day of his entering samadhi, for which all villagers and sadhus were invited. Up till now we did not have a chance to post the photos from that occasion, so we are posting them here.

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This is the last photo I took of Dayalu Baba, 14 days before he departed. Seeing it makes me sad because it foreshadows what was to come, with him walking away as he leaves us.

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Yesterday (June 6th), another of our friends, Chandan prabhu, a long time devotee at Dayalu Baba’s ashram, passed away, just 10 days after baba had left. He was a professional mridanga player, and would always be there to help in the ashram and perform kirtan. I had known him for around 15 years, and his father was the one who sold us the farm land which we gave to Dayalu Baba for him to grow rice and sustain his ashram.

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Yesterday (May 28th) at 10 am one of the great hidden sadhus of Odisha left his body and was placed in samadhi at his ashram in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. Dayalu Baba had spent many decades roaming the forests around the sacred Ratna Giri mountain in the Salandi Reserve Forest and performing severe sadhana. He was a disciple of a great local saint named Rama Baba, who’s samadhi is now located in Jharkhand.

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Yesterday (April 20th) at 2 am, one of the great saints and mahatmas left us and was placed in samadhi. I have known Vishwanatha Baba for around 20 years. He was a brahmachari sadhu his entire life from childhood. He is the younger brother of another sadhu, 101 year old Chakratirtha Baba, and both of them have resided in the forest at Chakratirtha for the last 50 years.

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