Early Life
Badruddin 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 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 Quran." With this, Badruddin is said to have lost his material consciousness and began to experience a sense of oneness or "Advaita Vedanta."
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