He met saints like Ramana Maharishi and Swami Shivananda. Being of an ascetic nature he travelled widely and met many Saint and spent time with them. He was initiated into sanyas at Karanbas in Uttar Pradesh. In 1910, Ram Baba took Sanyas after having enjoyed life to its fullest. Since then Ram Baba started invariably visiting Shirdi on Gurupoornima day to pay his homage to his Sadguru. This beautiful story has been narrated in Chapter 23 of Shri Sai Satcharitra. He does not know that onion should be eaten only by a person who is strong enough to digest it’, Ram Baba’s ego was stripped down immediately and he realized the greatness of Shri Sai Baba. But when Baba shouted : ‘Nana: Drive that dog of a yogi. But he saw Baba eating onions with bread(which is taboo for Yogi) and immediately thought in his mind that he had come to a wrong and unworthy person. Ram Baba was then practicing yoga and wanted some clarifications from Baba.

‘Ye kutte idhar aajana, Are! Jo hazam kar sakta wahi to kha sakta hai”. Ram Baba was a great worshipper of Shri Sai Baba and had the good fortune of first meeting Shri Sai Baba on 22nd February 1914 Baba welcomed him saying. Lt.Col.M.B.Nimbalkar was fortunate to meet this great Saint and had a closed door meeting with him for one and half hours during which Swami Ram Baba narrated his experiences with Shri Sai Baba and general views on Religion and Spiritual matters. He always used to stay in “SAI NIVAS” at Shirdi. Instead advised everyone to bow down to Shri Sai Baba. He never allowed people to bow down to him or touch his feet. Sai Mahabhakta Ram Baba was tall, fair, sported a long beard and always used to wear Ochre Robe.

Sai baba shirdi