Long before 1908 when Shirdi was quiet and humble village, Baba told one of his devotees, 'mansions will rise in this village, big people will come here, guns will be fired, grand processions will be held and people would make a bee-line here!' On hearing this people laughed, as these were most unlikely in such a worthless hamlet. Because of His unpredictable behaviour, Baba was taken to be a mentally derranged person by many of the villagers. The meaning of His divine utterance was not understood then. But in the due course of time all this came true. Baba can never be wrong as He had knowledge of the past and the future, not only of individuals meeting Him but also about past and future events before and beyond the duration of His physical existence.

Today on an average thirty thousand people visit Shirdi everyday. The number runs into several lakhs on significant occasions. Persons from high offices of government line up to bow down to Shri Sai. There are adequate facilities to meet the demands of a cross section of devotees coming from all parts of the country and abroad. Shirdi is emerging as the top most pilgrim centre of India. At the time of Baba, about 20 to 125 people used to visit Him every month. But today, the average crowd visiting Shirdi is about 30 to 35 thousand persons a day and the number is ever in the increase. To meet this contingency the Temple administration has launched an expansion scheme of the temple premises.