It is not clear from history, how many centuries the Europeans and West Asians have taken to accept Jesus as Savior and Son of God.
We must say that Indians were madly super-fast in converting Shirdi Saibaba into God. He was worshipped during his life-time itself as a living God, around 1910. Shirdi Saibaba didn't apparently take active interest in deifying himself, but he acquiesced when hangers-on around him engaged themselves calling him God.
The living Puttaparthi Sai Baba started calling himself God at an early age, pretending to be an incarnation (Avatar) of Shirdi Saibaba.
The exact personal characteristics and traits of Shirdi Sai Baba are not known. The documentation available on his life are essentially hagiographies, published by his worshippers, who felt that they were benefited by his purported miraculous curative powers of incurable diseases .
Shirdi Sai Baba died in 1918.
The madness of worshipping Shirdi Sai Baba, has since then , spread like wild fire in India.
India has 28 states and all the States seem to have Shirdi Sai Temples in abundance. There may not be a good hospital or a good school in a small Indian town, but the town will have Shirdi Sai Temple. Highways, both National and Provincial, have Shirdi Sai Temples all along from Kashmir to Kanya Kumari and Kandla to Aizwal.
Some people have started considering that worshipping Shirdi Sai Baba, is an integral culture of India. The word 'culture' has lost its meaning , in the process .
Rich countries can have habits befitting the rich. Poor countries must have habits befitting their poor citizens. The poor countries cannot fritter away their meagre resources on building marble temples to instal idols of dead persons.
This craze of worshipping Sai Baba is fast encroaching into every country of the world. Temples are being built world-wide spending millions of dollars, to worship the cult-figure .
Important cities of the world , with Temples
Hongkong , London, New YOrk, Singapore , Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver.
Countries which have Shirdi Sai Temples
Bermuda, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malasia, Mauritius, Netherlands , New Zealand, Norway, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain , Sri Lanka, Tanzania, U.K., West Indies, Zambia.
Most temples are managed by private hands, in the guise of Trusts. It is very difficult to say whether private hands manage better or the Government Officials manage better. We get some semblance of public accountability and transparency.
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