Hazrat Tajuddin Baba
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Tajuddin Baba
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| Birth | January 21, 1861 (Kamthi, India) |
| Death | August 17, 1925 (Nagpur, India) |
| School/tradition | Sufism |
| Influenced by | Hazrat Abdulla Shah |
Hazrat Tajuddin Baba (January 21, 1861 – August 17, 1925) was an Indian Sufi master considered by his followers to be a sadguru or qutub. He lived in Nagpur, India.
Tajuddin was orphaned at a young age and was raised by his maternal grandmother and uncle Abdul Rahman. He attended a Madrasah in Kamthi, near Nagpur, where he met Hazrat Abdulla Shah who initiated him into the spiritual path. Shah gave him a dry fruit to eat, saying, "Eat less, sleep less, and speak less. Read Qur'an." With this contact Tajuddin Baba is said to have lost his material consciousness and began to experience a sense of oneness or "Adwaita." [1]
Later, still in his youth, Tajuddin did a strange thing. He took off his clothes and began to walk about fully naked near a British polo game that was in progress. This shocked several British ladies in attendance and he was promptly committed to a insane asylum in Nagpur. In the hospital he became widely regarded as a sage and word spread outside of the hospital walls. Eventually people began to come to the hospital for Tajuddin's darshan. In time he was pardoned and the warden asked Tajuddin to come and live with him in his house as his presence had become a sign of local honor. Tajuddin did not stay with the warden long, but eventually moved on to establish his own ashram. He was honored by both Muslims and Hindus. [2]
Meher Baba contacted Tajuddin Baba in his youth and later said that Narayan was one of the five perfect masters of his time.
