Nanda Deep

This is the main feature of Lendi: the perpetually burning lamp between two trees that Baba is said to have planted a neem and a bodhi. As the trees were touched Baba and Planted close to where he sat and the lamp that he lit, the area serves as focus for worship, including Pradakshina.Between the neem tree and the bodhi tree is Nanda deep ("lamp of bliss", also known as Akhanda Deep -"Perpetually burning lamp"), the lamp that was originally lit by Baba. Later, Baba instructed Abdul Baba to see that it was kept burning. The lamp as we see it now was built by the Sansthan and the area has been paved. In Baba's time the lamp was sunk into a small pit and protected from the wind by some zinc sheets and later some pieces of cloth, making a kind of tent with lamp in the center.

Nanda Deep was a place where Baba liked to sit in contemplation. Abdul Baba says that Baba would sit on the ground close to the lamp. It seems, therefore that Baba was not using this lamp for its light or flame. Just as the lamp itself was concealed, exactly what Baba was doing here is also veiled from us. One of Abdul's duties was to keep two buckets of water by the lamp .After sitting; Baba would apparently take these, and in a ritualistic and rather mysterious way, throw the water in all four directions around the lamp. In his Life of Sai Baba Narasimhaswami observers, "He seemed to be blessing devotees in each direction and warding off evils that may be threatening them." This, however, is Conjecture, and again we cannot be sure why Baba did this.